'Many Americans seek a villain, but they forgot to look in the mirror.'
in a couple of his of his posts that among the media's most unexamined and hoary clichés is that fabled phrase, used whenever the media senses a subject it can beat to death:"prices at the pump." I Googled it, and turned up over 1.4 million hits. So what's wrong with it?
It's certainly a redundancy when you're talking about prices that retail consumers pay for motor fuel. They don't buy it in 55-gallon drums or have it delivered by Amazon Prime. No, pretty much 100 percent of the time it comes out of a pump connected to an underground tank at Arnie's Sunoco. Reacting like Pavlov's dogs, the American public becomes hysterical about gas prices, and they need someone to blame. It might be the government, which for many is the default bad guy responsible for every vicissitude of life. Or the Arab sheiks, who are not exactly popular. Or Big Oil execs, whose sensitivity to public needs is demonstrated byabout how they are giving back to the American people by paying dividends to shareholders at a time of record profits.
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