ANDREW SULLIVAN SAYS: 'THE INTERNET DID IT'
Prominent blogger-journalist Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New
Republic magazine, says that the Internet should be given much of the
credit for forcing the resignation of top New York Times editors Howell
Raines and Gerald Boyd: "Only, say, five years ago, the editors of the New
York Times had much more power than they have today. If they screwed up, no
one would notice much. A small correction would be buried days, sometimes
weeks, later... The blogosphere in general created a growing chorus of
criticism that helped create public awareness of exactly what Raines was up
to." Sullivan quotes a letter from one of his readers: "Now in newspaper
journalism, as in so many other traditional industries (real estate,
banking, computers, retail sales, airlines, travel, etc.), we see that the
Internet strips away discretion, power and secrecy. It is very hard to
withstand the forced transparency induced by this new technology." To which
Sullivan adds: "And you ain't seen nothing yet." (The Daily Dish 6 Jun 2003)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com
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Friday, June 06, 2003
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: EDGAR GUEST
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the newspaperman and popular versifier
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), who amazed the publishing world with his
unstoppable talent for producing a steady stream of sentimental and
moralistic rhymes on such subjects as home, mother, and the virtue of hard
work.
For several decades as verse columnist on the Detroit Free Press he
wrote a poem every day of the week. His first book, the best seller "A Heap
o' Livin'", was published in 1916, followed by "Just Folks" (1917),
"Collected Verse" (1934), and "Living the Years" (1949). Guest is thought
to have written more than 11,000 poems.
Guest was born in England and came with his family to the United
States in 1891. At age 13 he went to work for the Detroit Free Press, first
as an office boy, and then as a police reporter. There he spent his entire
60-year working career, and despite his fame as a versifier he always
considered himself mainly a newspaper man.
His verse writing was an unplanned career development. In 1898 he had
editorial responsibility for finding verses and other short filler items,
and one day instead of clipping a verse, he decided to write his own. Soon
he had a weekly column, "Blue Monday Chat," and then a daily column,
"Breakfast Table Chat." Ten years later, in 1908, Guest decided to
distinguish himself by writing almost entirely in meter and rhyme.
Eventually he got together with his younger brother, a typesetter, and
began self-publishing small collected volumes of his verse. That was the
start of a book publishing enterprise that would eventually sell his books
in the millions.
Guest acknowledged that he was no favorite of "highbrow, longhair
intellectual critics and writers," attributing his journalistic popularity
to this simple formula: "I take simple everyday things that happen to me
and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes
out of them."
Today's Honorary Subscriber is the newspaperman and popular versifier
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), who amazed the publishing world with his
unstoppable talent for producing a steady stream of sentimental and
moralistic rhymes on such subjects as home, mother, and the virtue of hard
work.
For several decades as verse columnist on the Detroit Free Press he
wrote a poem every day of the week. His first book, the best seller "A Heap
o' Livin'", was published in 1916, followed by "Just Folks" (1917),
"Collected Verse" (1934), and "Living the Years" (1949). Guest is thought
to have written more than 11,000 poems.
Guest was born in England and came with his family to the United
States in 1891. At age 13 he went to work for the Detroit Free Press, first
as an office boy, and then as a police reporter. There he spent his entire
60-year working career, and despite his fame as a versifier he always
considered himself mainly a newspaper man.
His verse writing was an unplanned career development. In 1898 he had
editorial responsibility for finding verses and other short filler items,
and one day instead of clipping a verse, he decided to write his own. Soon
he had a weekly column, "Blue Monday Chat," and then a daily column,
"Breakfast Table Chat." Ten years later, in 1908, Guest decided to
distinguish himself by writing almost entirely in meter and rhyme.
Eventually he got together with his younger brother, a typesetter, and
began self-publishing small collected volumes of his verse. That was the
start of a book publishing enterprise that would eventually sell his books
in the millions.
Guest acknowledged that he was no favorite of "highbrow, longhair
intellectual critics and writers," attributing his journalistic popularity
to this simple formula: "I take simple everyday things that happen to me
and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes
out of them."
BODYBUILDING!!!
Victor Martinez 29-year-old who won his the Overall victory at the 2000 Nationals in New York, again won his victory at the Night of Champions on May 31.The 5�E" Martinez carried 238 pounds of ripped, symmetrical muscle and made victory in the 41-man field. "I was really ready for this one," said Martinez "I knew I was going to win as soon as I got my number."
Kai futami
Victor Martinez 29-year-old who won his the Overall victory at the 2000 Nationals in New York, again won his victory at the Night of Champions on May 31.The 5�E" Martinez carried 238 pounds of ripped, symmetrical muscle and made victory in the 41-man field. "I was really ready for this one," said Martinez "I knew I was going to win as soon as I got my number."
Kai futami
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