Even the most obvious stunts pass muster with defanged journos

MYFOXNY.COM - Things are getting so bad in Newark that the mayor has ordered the government to stop buying toilet paper.

It's part of Newark Mayor Cory Booker's belt-tightening plans that include reducing most city workers to a 4-day work week and shuttering city pools.

My take:

This is how a defanged journalist handles a show-boating stunt by a politician desperate to avoid a downturn in revenue.

In an earlier era, a sharp-fanged journalist might have handled this story like this:

Two weeks after landing a $20,000-a-year pay raise for himself, Hoboken's mayor on Monday said he would stop buying toilet paper for city workers. The move is expected to save $11 a week. which means that the mayor's first-year raise will have been paid for in just 1,818 weeks.