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Thursday, March 18, 2004
Not only did we come to regard political speech as manipulative, but ... They called themselves poetic politicians, and the rhyme scheme went something like: Me-Me-Me-Me-ME; but MEdia Dragon hopes to link to stories about all of us especially the powerless...
Winans advises Stewart to scrub prison toilets with gusto
Winans, who did time for his WSJ misdeeds, advises Martha Stewart not to pay someone else to do her prison tasks:
Immerse yourself in humility. It's good for the soul. ALSO: Offer to host or appear on 'Saturday Night Live.' Your situation, in the context of all the horrible things that can happen to people, is a tempest in a teaspoon. Poke fun at yourself!
If another journalist uttered this line, the assessment might smack of moral indignation, sprinkled with a dose of the Schadenfreude evident in much of the proselytizing about the tawdry affair. But out of the mouth of Foster Winans, it sounds like the insight of a man who has walked in Blair’s shoes
· Felon's Recipe for Martha Stewart's Prison Living
· If I were Jayson Blair, I’d have a real hard time finding a reason to live right now
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