Home Depot Hubbub Didn't Set Buyout Tone

What's that, you are asking The Business Press Maven? What's that one practice of the business media that more than any other requires a fathomless level of pomposity, compromised reasoning and disdain for the intelligence of readers and viewers?

Ask me sometime and I'll tell you how I really feel, but it's the trend story.

In this respect, the business media are no different from the media at large, which write about purported trends so frequently that -- well, metaphors fail the situation. Only problem is that out of all the many trends they write about, only the occasional one proves legitimate. ...