I saw a Washington Post headline the other day, “Who’s No. 2? Obama Keeps Everybody Guessing.” No—the “everybody” in that construction is you. Imagine if you were covering the baseball playoffs and you wrote that there was massive speculation about who was going to win. It’s manifestly moronic because you’re writing about a scheduled event that is going to take place on a known timeline. You’re contributing nothing. It’s the opposite of news; any useful public information is entirely missing.

(Chris Lehmann, in an interview with Ken Silverstein at Harper’s)

b/ Proof:

Meshworks at Miami of Ohio (admirably managed by Keith Tuma, cris cheek, Justin Katko, and Daniel Ereditario) has some video posted of the Oxford (OH) leg of the British poets’ US tour. (Said poets being Andrea Brady, Keston Sutherland, and Peter Manson, all featured in the British Poetry Issue of Chicago Review.)

They’ve also got video of Sean Bonney, Mairéad Byrne, Tom Leonard, Bernadette Mayer, Stephen Rodefer, and Tom Raworth. Plus, footage from the Contemporary Experimental Women’s Poetry Festival at Cambridge last year.