This just in. Actually, these two things just in. First, ranting is best left to the rantor. Celine informed me that I didn't capture her anger and indignation. She is a professional journalist with a keenly developed sense of professionalism and is afflicted with that misery with which only a very few suffer, but the world is immeasurably better for suffering: she gives a shit about what she does and what she makes. Slugs and makers get along like slugs and salt.
The trade deficit caused by wine imports comes from a Commerce Department release. This does not take Pam Martin off of the hook. The job of a real journalist not to parrot facts, but set them in context that is meaningful for their readers. Corporate journalism is increasingly missing this point. The journalists don't, especially the good ones, but the environment in which they work is increasingly hostile to meaningful interpretation.
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