Month: November 2003

He’s got a Reason

MediaBistro interviews the editor of Reason magazine (posted as a shoutout to Matt Welch, who writes for the mag). His philosophy: Fundamentally, I don’t think the magazine is interested in controlling people’s lives. What we’re interested in doing is reducing…

Top 20 U.S. papers’ circulation

Circulation news here. 1 USA Today 2,246,996 + 0.7% 2. The Wall Street Journal 2,091,062 + 16.1% 3. The New York Times 1,118,565 + 0.5% 4. Los Angeles Times 955,211 – 1.1% 5. The Washington Post 732,872 – 1.9% 6.…

Nonsense verse …

… on the PR industry trafficking in nonsense. Americans also really, really, really want to trust their authority figures. They’re willing to look the other way, as long as the dude on TV–be he pundit or president–can be persuasive enough…

The world according to Jim

Just for fun I thought up this list of reasons why we crave Romenesko’s Media News, where it’s news if it reveals: Something happening at a New York magazine none of us reads. Something happening at one we do read.…

The Gender Genie

… can tell if you write like a girl. I tried it on three of my posts and the genie said my guyness overwhelmed my girlness on two of them. (Hat tip to Olive Press for the link.)

On appositives

From the Purdue writing lab. An appositive is a noun or pronoun — often with modifiers — set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify. The newspaper biz’s favorite use of the appositive is to put quotes around…

Save me, Jonah!

That evil Media Elite stole my babies away and won’t give ’em back!