Category: Gripes

Why is it that whenever …

… an organziation has “accuracy” in its title, you can be absolutely assured that its notion of accuracy is any reporting friendly to its side of the issue?

International carrier day

Let me say right here, in honor of International Carrier Day, that I learned no valuable lessons about life, economics or journalism from my stint as a newspaper carrier. All I learned was that it sucks to be the only…

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…

All journalism is visual

Something that annoys me: when designers call themselves “visual journalists.” It’s a problem of semantics that only a copy editor could love: When “visual” modifies “journalist” it creates a subset. Of course they don’t mean it because they are nice…

Publicists, take heed

This is a boldfaced rant to any of you who send us publicity stills of rock ‘n’ roll bands: Give us the names of the people in the picture, for Christ’s sake! This really happened to me just last week:…