by The Wordyeti | Apr 20, 2006 | journalism
“I put too much cream cheese on Buddy’s bagel and he threw it at me. But I learned a very valuable lesson… never put too much cream cheese on Buddy’s bagel…†– Guy, Swimming with Sharks Lyle v. Warner Brothers 117 Cal.App.4th 1164...
by The Wordyeti | Apr 17, 2006 | journalism
This story is kinda like those stories that your family saves until you’re 18. You know the ones … where they finally tell you where Weird Old Uncle Harold went for 5-to-10 years, and for what. The columnist who wrote this, Michael Malone, has a sig...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 15, 2006 | journalism
OK, you’re gonna hafta forgive me for this post; some errant code got into the first post, I tried to fit it, and my efforts only served to make the post more and more f’d up. Sheesh. You’d think HTML and computers were hard or...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 13, 2006 | journalism
Cue the elegies and weeping. Knight-Ridder has been sold to McClatchy, Tony Ridder’s dangling from the rafters like the ill-fated mook on the Sopranos last night, and we’re feeling so sad. The phrase that keeps cropping up in all the stories has got to be...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 9, 2006 | journalism
…and no, this is not just another rambling screed about how the NSA domestic spying program is TEOTWAWKI. Although that’s always fun. No, this is about the fumbling attempts to try to figure out how to deliver the news/information/entertainment (and they...