Columnists write about “tradpols” (traditional politicians) all the time, and they should.
But who’s writing about the “tradcols” (traditional columnists)?
Who’s checking their own brand of patronage politics — dispensing or withholding favors, using their positions in, and the resources of the Fourth Estate, at the expense of the public trust?
In this election season, you’re seeing them again, and the woodwork from which they came. They devote entire columns promoting, or shooting down, the candidacies of their clients and their adversaries, living on the generosity or fear of those who do not know better.
They are, plain and simple, “blocktimers in print”.
And newspapers that rail and moralize against blocktimers on radio should perhaps first sweep their backyards of this “turd force”.
