July 21, 2009
Mythland
Posted by: Keith Kloor : Category: media, methamphetamine
Timothy Egan is one of the best writers at the NY Times. Here’s his killer lede from today’s column:
Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn silo.
