Asshole, Pt. II

Spotted in Romanesko's daily journo-blog:

http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/local/index.php?ntid=36376

Only campus media were allowed to cover Sting's appearance in a University of Wisconsin-Madison classroom, but pro reporter Melanie Conklin did her best to get the scoop. She writes: "Reporters become beastly people when told they are forbidden from getting information from a public entity. So we do what any rational person would do: phone campus papers, harass current and former student interns, visit Sting chat rooms, call music junkies. All that gleans is an article saying he'll allegedly perform 'Don't Stand So Close to Me,' a rather creepy choice for a classroom visit."



This is what Elvis Costello meant when he sang "Hurry Down, Doomsday, the Bugs Are Taking Over:"

"Any day a giant insect mutation
Will swoop down and devour the white man's burden,
Starting off with all of the sensitive ones,
Better make like a FLY if you don't want to die,
Look out! There goes GORDON."

Fokkers.