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What I love most about Noonan's "column," and Williams' embrace of it, is that it exemplifies American post-literacy. Snide, made-up observations, heavily larded with both prejudice and inanity, strung together in incomplete sentences and eight-grade vocabulary.
Had I written such a thing in high school I would have been rightly ridiculed and received an F.
But to Williams, finger ever on the pulse of "ordinary" Americans, whom he obviously assumes are numbskulls and believes "journalism" should keep them that way, such contemptuous trash is worthy of an award.
A revealing, albeit unintentionally, statement on Williams' part.
