"YouFace, these things, everybody seems to be looking at them.
But newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? They’re trying to prove they went to college," according to Jimmy Breslin, a bullrushing reporter (he hates the word journalist). YouFace is probably a smashing of Youtube and Facebook. Some other good lines: "Jonathan Alter, he’s a nice fellow. [David] Brooks, worst I ever read in print. And the other guy, [William] Kristol. He should be arrested if caught writing a postcard. Wolfey—Tom Wolfe—called the father [Irving Kristol] Irving Statistics. But that’s when people could turn phrases.
* Btw, LAObserved gives a shout out to Jennifer Mclain's Water story.