Apply Casey's reasoning to his own newspaper

The spirit of conciliation that follows national elections has surely spread to blogHOUSTON.

How else to explain that we've found an area of agreement with noxious Chron metro/state columnist Rick Casey?

But we mostly agree with this snippet from Casey's Friday column:

In politics, we're still in the days when Ma Bell had no competition.

The difference is, the courts broke up that monopoly, spawning huge rate cuts and unimagined innovation.

We're pleased that Rick Casey is coming around to our way of thinking. Just substitute "local newspapers" for "politics" in that paragraph above, and we're with him 99%.

We come up 1% short, because we're not that enthusiastic about courts telling newspapers what to do.

But the idea of a competing newspaper in this town sounds great!

And in the absence of an actual competing newspaper, maybe just one right-of-center staff columnist to balance the out-of-touch lefty trio of Rick Casey, Clay Robison, and Cragg Hines?

We're sure Casey will join us in urging his boss and friend Jeff Cohen to act quickly on our suggestion. Right, Rick?

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/06/04 10:09 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (0)

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