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Although a column is an opinion piece based on the writer's point-of-view, it has failed to do the following:
1) Did not pass the "So What? Who Cares?" test. This topic has been covered many, many times. It would be more acceptable if it was an original spin on a topic that has been beaten to death. It has failed to do so.
2) Where is the lead? In non-journalism speak, this means that the thesis statement has not been presented in the first three paragraphs. There is no thesis. The lead isn't buried because the writer never developed a lead.
3) This is not a news article, or an opinion story. It's stream of consciousness writing one might find in a personal journal or an unedited letter to the editor. Any news source worth its salt would not publish a piece like this.
I don't say these things to speak bad of the writer, or because she is anti-Greek. But this is a piece of writing in the Seinfeld-ian tradition: it's a story about nothing. That's honest constructive criticism.
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