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 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
Much like Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, I lie twitching feebly, coating in noxious green funk. Mac Reed meme’d me! Dammit! I managed to resist for a couple of days (with the help of Johnny Walker Gold … ahhh … kills the pain…) Apparently,...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 7, 2006 | journalism
This was originally publised on the LAVoice.org blog, but it’s such a damn good piece of writing (if I can be excused for patting myself on the back) that I just had to recycle it and put it up here… Back in 1989, about four months after Reagan had finally...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 7, 2006 | journalism
OK, I think that his politics are, in many ways despicable. OK, make that “almost without exception are despicable.†Rupert’s father was a true journalist hero (look up how he had a hand in printing the uncomfortable truth that finally stopped the...
by The Wordyeti | Jan 24, 2006 | journalism
Well, this is a tricky question that I often ask myself – well, at least as much as I ask myself why I got OUT of journalism. Which question runs close on the heels of a question that is far more trenchant these days: Why in hell am I thinking of getting back...
