Bronstein Emerges Unscathed After Dowd Date (Maureen's one night stand)

SFist ^ | 4/27/09 | Brock Keeling

[Libloather]

Bronstein Emerges Unscathed After Dowd Date
By Brock Keeling in News on April 27, 2009 2:53 PM

Maureen Dowd is kind of an idiot. And we mean that in the nicest way possible, because she seems so smart. But then she goes off and writes this. In her most recent op-ed piece for the New York Times, she attempts to show the world of online writing what's what. How so? Well, she attacks Twitter and other types of newfangled online internet world wide web sites, claims that journalists are "hot" in Hollywood right now ("Russell Crowe, playing a messy and morally ambiguous Washington investigative journalist, teaches the self-regarding blogger, Rachel McAdams, a thing or three, including why a pen is necessary" is just one example of print publishing's tenacity), and compares cumbersome newspapers to the ageless Norma Desmond.

Best of all, Dowd goes on a death-of-journalism date with SF Chronicle's editor-at-large and preferred online writer Phil Bronstein. While in SF, Phil takes Maureen to a "newspaper bar" (The Chieftain, formerly Harrows), shows her something called a "Linotype machine," and reminisces about hot-off-the-press stories like Barry Bonds and AIDS.

But before Dowd can ensnare Bronstein inside her sepia-toned web, he hits her with the following gem.

"For people who still love print, who like to hold it, feel it, rustle it, tear stuff out, do their I. F. Stone thing, it’s important to remember that people are living longer,” he said. “That’s the most hopeful thing you can say about print journalism, that old people are living longer.”

Well played, Phil.

[Libloather]

Dowd goes on a death-of-journalism date

That's GOTTA be fun!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

RULES!

[csvset]

[Carl LaFong]

oooh-that’s one I haven’t seen before.

[Anti-Bubba182]

[arbooz]

RULES!

Here you go...

[Big_Monkey]

I wonder how many years of therapy CZJ has caused for Howdy-Dowdy?

[Trailerpark Badass]

These people are stoned on their own self-importance.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

That is not a good picture of CZJ.

[JoJo Gunn]

Let's not forget that Dowd felt compelled to compete with an adolescent homosexual writing a paen to Obama in the last week.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If God is just, she must be a horrible person, but often he is not!

[grey_whiskers]

"For people who still love print, who like to hold it, feel it, rustle it, tear stuff out, do their I. F. Stone thing,<snip>

I thought the news in the past couple of weeks was that Stone was a Stalinist stooge.

So this guy admits it about *all* MSM journalists?

What's up with that? /sarc>

Cheers!

[arbooz]

That is not a good picture of CZJ.

There's never a shortage of her pics, but how often do you see a clever bugger who has schooled Mr. Bronstein?

[FlyingEagle]

Innocent until proven guilty

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I live in Florida. Those buggers run around loose hereabouts.

[arbooz]

You win.

[dfwgator]

Thank God for rules!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Great shot from Chicago!

[DuncanWaring]

What the heck is that thing? Iguana?

[arbooz]

That is Mr. Komodo - the Dragon that almost took Phil Bronstein’s foot off in the zoo.

[DuncanWaring]

Ahhh - the Komodo Dragon - I shoulda known, based on the teeth.

Hadn’t heard about Bronstein’s foot.

[reagan_fanatic]

*Sigh*

[arbooz]

Hadn’t heard about Bronstein’s foot.

Mr. Sharon Stone, a.k.a. the leftist genius.

Here it is.

[arbooz]

Is good to be rich, no?

[DuncanWaring]

Thanks ... sounds vaguely familiar now.