Tina Brown's column in the Washington Post is often mocked, but she's trying. In this week's blatt she addresses the phenomenon of news as melodrama, calling the warhorse stories-of-the-week "hourly Passion plays" in which "the endlessly repeated tape loop of Terri's gaping mouth has become as ubiquitous as Starbucks."
The current mania for any story with a religious angle is just the latest index of the post-election angst in executive suites about the terror of being out of touch with suburban mega-churches and other manifestations of the supposed Real America. God forbid, so to speak, that anyone should stand up and suggest that Mozart might be as worthwhile as NASCAR, or that it might be as important for the soul to read Philip Roth as the hokey bromides of "The Purpose Driven Life."
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