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Reading this has me yearning for the produce aisle.... Zuchnini, cucumbers, squash, whatever....then I can really let loose!! Maybe move on to a frozen garlic bread...even a corn dog!

Gee! I love food!

The short piece by Jack Neely is purely made up, as are all his historical things based on the fiction book, Sutree. Reporters need to strive for the professionalism of major newspapers in large cities to create "mainstream" or "conventional" points of view. This is what media power is really about. At a subsequent meeting to be told about the design for a proposed "passenger friendly" center to wait in out of the elements, only one member of the committee attended; but a city official told the television reporter that the bus station would be 'airport quality.' I have not been in McGhee Tyson but, if it's as primitive as this 'biased' design for the transit center, it's proof of the backwardness of this town -- and the gullibility of the press.

As a correspondent on the CBS national t.v. network, Bernard Goldberg worked into his own segment on 'CBS Evening News' called "Bernard Goldberg's America." This gives him the right to feel self-important and proud, as the winner of seven Emmy Awards for news reporting. His latest book, 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA (AND AL FRANKEN IS #37), has been parodied by Jack Huberman's 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY SCREWING UP AMERICA: (AND BERNARD GOLDBERG IS ONLY #84). BIAS identified the problem. ARROGANCE offers a solution, Mr. Goldberg's solution.

Neely's writings are all fiction and opinion, none of it fact in any of the anthologies of Knoxville writers. They are all creative and not historical in any way. He does not read old newspapers, doesn't know how. He is only a studge for Metro Pulse.

Reading this has me yearning for the produce aisle.... Zuchnini, cucumbers, squash, whatever....then I can really let loose!! Maybe move on to a frozen garlic bread...even a corn dog!

Gee! I love food!