Casual bigotry at the Guardian
At the Guardian, John Freeman starts out an uninteresting piece on the speed at which novelists write with some casual bigotry.
The only thing melting faster than polar ice caps these days is America’s attention span. The US, after all, is a country where the vice-president can shoot a man in the face on February 11, and have that story buried by Valentine’s day.
Freeman certainly hopes that his readers will have the sort of short attention span so that they forget it was a hunting accident, and the victim recovered quite nicely. But that would not fit his bigoted story line.