Thanks for the pointer to the Nugent piece, which I had missed (and par for course, it gets the facts wrong. Mama Cass didn’t die of drugs, she died of a ham sandwich).

I could go on all day about the WSJ editorial pages, but the issue here is news coverage. Most readers labor under the delusion that while the editorial pages are doctrinaire right wing, with the occasional enlightened op-ed piece thrown in to keep everyone off base, the news reporting is unbiased. That’s the reason for all the hand wringing about Murdoch buying the WSJ. It’s assumed he’ll intervene in the presumed-to-be-objective news pages.

I’m merely pointing out that the news coverage even now is skewed. If you want to see more of the same, look at the articles in the topic “Media watch.” You’ll see the vast majority are about the Journal.

You didn’t catch Ted Nugent’s ope-ed piece on how 1960’s hippies in San Francisco destroyed America.

Ted Nugent? The Nuge? Please.

Maybe it’s cattle call for Abelson’s replacement.