COULD IT BE? NO!! LOOK EVERYONE, THE DAILY CRIME MIGHT BE GROWING A SET!!

Imagine the shock that must have washed over the lower shore last week when the Salisbury Daily Crime actually published a piece of investigative journalism.... that they did themselves.... not a wire story... and then, they followed it up today with a story about how a local state's attorney is opening an investigation into the food bank that was the subject of the news story. Wow.... we're incredibilized, and we can't imagine what happened over there that caused the editors to suddenly sprout hair on their collective chest.... maybe that Eric-guy, the ME, was on vacation, or something. God knows, he never would have allowed it. Those more charitable than us would say he's a "safety man"... wears a belt and suspenders. But we're not that polite.... matter of fact, we don't even like political correctness. So we'll just call him Mr. Scarediepants. The guy has no experience doing any actual reporting. And that may be a good thing, seeing as your average Camp Fire Girl has more of a hunter-instinct than he does...But hey, he likes to draw pictures and he does a fine job of drawing political cartoons, if you like his tightrope walk of balancing topical subjects against the pains he takes to avoid the possibility of offending anyone, especially advertisers, readers, repiglicans, democrats, blacks, whites, women, minorities, cops, lawyers, aliens (earthly and other-planetary) ... lessee, did I leave anyone out: if I did and they're offended, too bad.In effect, that paper is the informational equivalent of a donut-- it looks good but contains nothing of value, and all because that boy has a heart that pumps kool-aid.But all things being equal, the Daily Crime is still light years ahead of that guy Steve, the one on channel 16… you know, the one that looks like he gets his hair groomed by the same barber who does used-car salesmen. That guy is a dream-come-true for the local chamber of commerce. Reporters and camera-people we've talked to say they can't wait to get out of there because Steverino is so conservative he actually spikes story ideas that may reflect poorly on officialdom and on businesses. The reason for that is he's a member of the chamber ... whew, talk about a conflict of interest.... he either needs to quit the chamber, or quit pretending to be a journalist. I vote for the latter. After all, maybe he can get a gig as a flak for the chicken industry, or something, but his credibility as a genuine newsman is zero.