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They Brand Cattle, Don't They?

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"If I do this--and I probably won't--what would I be selling? Cars? Watches?"

"Toilet paper. It goes with your brand. A whole gaggle of conservative readers already say your column is full of--"

"--great insight and sparkling language."

"Yeah. Sure. Something like that."

"Look, Marshbaum," I said a bit testy, "I don't need to be a brand. I do need to write my column for this week."

"I think you just did," he said smugly.

[Dr. Brasch's latest book is Fracking Pennsylvania, an in-depth look at the economic, political, health, and environmental effects of high-volume horizontal fracturing. Rosemary R. Brasch, who never once did a TV commercial when she was an actress, assisted on this column.]

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Walter Brasch is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism emeritus. His current books are Before the First Snow: Stories from the Revolution , America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of (more...)
 

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