Winkie’s back from Japan.
Month: April 2004
Touch the ‘Elephants’
And if you live in the Beltway you can grab yourself a signed copy of Bill’s book.
Give ’em a hand.
A Hulk hand, that is.
When you’re smiling…
You’re using half as many muscles as you need to frown. Or are you?
Back Friday, maybe
Too much totally stupid shit is happening in the blogosphere right now and it’s making me depressed. Need to rest the eyes and the brain… be back soon.
2 views on fate of newspapers
Doomed. Not doomed (I’m biased, of course, but I consider “not doomed” more persuasive.) Read ’em both and decide for yourself.
Quote of the day
“If bankers gave themselves prizes (‘the most reckless Third-World loan of the year’) with the same abandon as journalists, you may be sure that the public ridicule would soon force them to conduct the proceedings in secret.” — Alexander Cockburn…
HST on the NCAA men’s b’ball title
The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November. Take…
Blogging and the Pulitzers, cont.
Lively discussion happening in the comments for last night’s post about whether bloggers could win Pulitzers. Weighing in: blogging heavyweight Dave Winer vs. muckraking heavyweight Derek Willis.
Our brush with the P.P.
Not long after I got to work on Monday, a note went out to the newsroom to gather at the photo desk. Three of our photographers were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, and the winners were just…