By Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Are You Fed Up with Anonymous Sources, Too?
Series: Tyrades | Story 9
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July 16, 2020
What spoils even more evening meals than robocalls?
How about newscasts with their endless stream of titillating revelations coyly attributed to “reliable sources,” “people close to the matter,” “people familiar with the situation,” “people who thought the situation was a cast member of ‘Jersey Shore’,” etc.?
The whole concept of “close to the situation” is overrated. Lots of people “close to the situation” can’t see the forest for the trees until Columbo, Poirot or Jessica Fletcher waltz in and make them look like doofuses.
The overkill derives from the hyper...
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