Some blogs take an ABC satire alleging to be a memo from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow seriously.
(Hey, that happens to best of us. We once took seriously all the memos from readers suggesting a special, dark place where we should stick our computer but we know all of our readers love us…)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.