Rick Bragg’s narrative reviewed in the New York Times. Some reviewers have questioned whether, without the exploits initially attributed to her, there could be any power in Lynch’s narrative. (Though Bragg does not say so, the early error had a…
Month: December 2003
Weekend reading: women covering war
National Geographic Online profiles women who covered World War II. The tall, strikingly beautiful Martha Gellhorn was a talented writer whose philandering husband, Ernest Hemingway, claimed she secretly loved war and was happiest there. She vehemently disagreed, writing powerful anti-war…
Careful about those Lolitas
I did a Google news search on “newspaper editor” and found this juicy story from Portales, New Mexico: CANNON AIR FORCE BASE ? The editor of the Cannon Air Force Base newspaper will spend nine months in military prison, be…
Lament of the day
From Will Leitch: Many of my friends out here talk about how “wild” they were in college, how they had loads of sex and drank and drugged it up all the time, recklessly, out of control. I should have went…
No ‘hand’ puns, thank you
A Time reporter has one less hand after trying to toss a live grenade out of a humvee in Iraq. The photographer with him took on some shrapnel. Background on the reporter, Michael Weisskopf, who was on his second trip…
Grin and bear this
The Romenesko letters page has scads of dumb assignments that reporters have suffered through over the years. I have one to add: This story unfolds at a certain Downstate Illinois daily whose coverage area includes a wildlife park in the…
No still-ness around here
The post below reminded me of a story Brian Throckmorton used to tell. He was our features desk copy chief at the Mercury News until he got a better gig back in Lexington, Ky., running the copy desks at the…
Let’s dump ‘Jury’s Still Out’ stories
Here we have Newsday reporting that it’s too soon to tell whether tabs targeting young readers are gaining any traction. See, if I were ambitious enough to work up a functioning lampoon of this kind of story, I’d post a…
Dumping on Gannett
I never waste a chance to link to stories trashing the Evil Empire of newspapering. Here’s one on shenanigans in the Indianapolis market. Here’s one on Gannett launching four free weeklies targeting young readers. And here’s one on advertising prospects…
Robert Bartley dead
The cheerleader of Reaganomics succumbs to cancer. I don’t speak ill of the dead so let’s leave it at that.