The Aspen paper isn’t going to cover the Kobe trial. There simply are too many ways to call this decision idiotic.
Month: October 2003
RIP Alexei Sidorov
He was a Russian newspaper editor, apparently murdered for getting too nosy. His predecessor was murdered too. Russia is the world’s second-most dangerous place to be a newsie, after Colombia.
When Mondo met Allen Ginsberg
Sid remembers the Beat legend. I was half captivated by the fact that I was hanging out with Allen Ginsberg, fellow poet, and half captivated by the photos and stories of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. My heroes –…
Reserve your room at the ACES convention
I would advise friendly people to double up — it’s $125 a night and Houston’s hotel tax is a wallet-curdling 17 percent. Here’s the link.
Clay on the Copy Editor Code
Copy Massage, who collects dictionaries for fun, is working on his personal Code of Copy Editing. Stop by and help him add new stuff. A highlight: 3.) I will express my concerns. Copy editors do their job toward the end…
The life of a music writer
Simona Rabinovich at Media Bistro, on how music writers are like groupies: Despite the groupie’s lowly status among pretentious intellectual and hipster circles, both the groupie and the music journalist in truth share many traits, chief among them an insatiable,…
Gettin’ tough on the boss
Wall Street Journal newsies are stickin’ it to the Man, who’s trying to impose a lot of stuff on ’em they’d just as soon not have to put up with. Among the union’s get-tough tactics: The angry union members have…
100 interesting things about Autumn
82. I didn’t have a Japanese Japanese teacher until college. (This is one of those 100-things-about-me lists that are flaming death in the hands of an inept writer. Since Autumn isn’t, it’s fun stuff.)
All Arnie, all the time
Just as everybody (barring major surgery) has a spleen, everybody has one to vent over the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor. A sampling from the usual Prints the Chaff suspects: Off-topic, a natural-born arbitrator The only thing both…
Link payback
These are bloggers who’ve linked to Prints the Chaff but aren’t included in my current lists of links. I’m going to add a “link payback” category and add these names to it. David Akin, Canadian biz reporter. baileybug, Florida amateur…