… isn’t getting any younger. “Newspaper readers are dying off faster than circulation departments can find new subscribers,” said analyst John Morton. And someday John Morton will die and there will be nobody to quote on the fate of the…
Author: tom
We’re biased against gays …
… because those stories about naughty priests reinforced negative stereotypes. OK, you got us there, but what about all the fawning coverage of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”?
Houston in my head
Last night I dreamed I was at the ACES conference but I had forgotten my luggage. And I never did find my room. Speaking of the conference, here are details for getting there from Houston’s two airports.
Bridge too far
Why are we still running bridge columns that nobody has a clue how to edit? The Testy Copy Editors don’t know for sure either. While you’re over there, enter the Jump Head Competition.
Lessons of complacency
The subject of this rant is me. That is, something insufferably stupid that I did, compounded because there were safety mechanisms built in to avoid such a thing but for about 30 seconds I was lazy, smug and sloppy enough…
Term of the day: Nerfball
What we just decided Oprah was serving up to Arnold in today’s interview on her show, the highlight of which was Arnold saying working out was better than coming.
Sign o’ the times
Editor & Publisher is going from weekly to monthly You need look no further than my job links pages to know why: the only reason anybody bought E&P was for the help-wanted ads, which are conspicuously available all sorts of…
Career advice
This is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent to a colleague who was wondering about job opportunities in certain papers. If you get called for an interview, check out the ages of the people who work there… if there…
Get over it
Stylin’ & Smilin’ insists we continue to replace “over” with “more than.” I still do it reflexively, out of loyalty to my favorite professors or something, but I think this battle is lost. “Over” was come to mean “more than”…
Small world dept.
Side Salad on Tampa’s Press Box. Simply the best place on earth to watch the Final Four and live for the day by consuming things that take years off your life.