Kim Kardashian was flower bombed<\/a>.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 Thank goodness I\u2019ve been brought up to date.\u00a0 That reminds me of Chesterton\u2019s famous observation that journalism largely consists of saying \u2018Lord Jones is Dead\u2019 to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.\u00a0 Any notions that the Internet would heal the rot of modern journalism will be dispelled by a brief survey of most Internet news sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an age of global upheaval and economic uncertainty, Yahoo.news makes sure I know that Kim Kardashian was flower bombed.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 Thank goodness I\u2019ve been brought up to date.\u00a0 That reminds me of Chesterton\u2019s famous observation that journalism largely consists of saying \u2018Lord Jones is Dead\u2019 to people who never knew that Lord Jones was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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