Month: September 2003

OK, another Krugman story

This one in a UK newspaper. One of the things he mentions in an interview is how members of the U.S. press seem unequipped to deal with the possibility that their leaders are blatantly lying to them. I wonder if…

Discarded by the news industry

… Now living out of his pickup truck. This is a near heartbreaking story of a 60ish reporter can’t find work and has been essentially camping out for more than a year. The real pathos emerges from the fact that…

On the job front

Norfolk’s Virginian Pilot needs a features editor. Cincinnati Enquirer needs bodies for its new special section for young readers. Sacramento Bee needs a features designer. Associated Press needs a Spanish-speaking desk editor in Puerto Rico. Alan Greenspan wants you. The…

Last words on said and says

Willcopy and Clay have been ruminating over attribution, so I might as well settle the matter: “Says” paraphrases a statement of opinion that presumably would not change. “Said” is for direct quotes or paraphrasing statements of fact. Whatever you do,…

All meat, all the time

Jen posts to the new blog of a friend who has given up the news biz and run off to cooking school.