Of klongs, dongs and fake news


I HAD a “klong” moment last week. Nope, I wasn’t in Thailand and I didn’t fall into one of their canals, which is what klong means in Thai. It is a word that American reporters are apparently familiar with, as I discovered when I read a comment by Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press in the Sunday Star.

According to him, a klong is a colloquial word meaning “A cold rush of excrement to the heart” that strikes journalists, usually late at night.

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