… 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?
Category: Gripes
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:…