I really thought the OC Register/Fullerton News Tribune had gone about as far south as was humanly possible. I was wrong. Yesterday they produced an on-line “piece” by a “columnist” named Dennis Bode.
It was dressed up to look like an article about remodeling your house – which is about as newsworthy as tulips in the front yard. Pretty soon the article started talking about house prices and foreclosures and REO’s, etc. Upon closer inspection it turns out the thing is nothing but a real estate come-on by Bode who, it turns out, is a real estate agent.
Sweet Emancipator, are they joking?
Read the rest of “‘Tamnation. OC Register/News Tribune Really And Truly Hits Rock Bottom”

The Register does the same thing in the tab-size paper in my city. Some old real estate buzzard writes a “column” in which he pretends to get questions from readers (“Ms. J.C.” or “Mr. G. P.”) and then he writes happy talk answers.
Yet another bad idea from a newspaper that formerly had real reporters.