It’s that time of that unique American weirdness: Super Bowl Week.
That time of hopeless overhype for what will likely be mediocre pro football and dazzlingly creative television commercials — something for everybody.
In honor of Super Bowl Week, I’ll pass on a bit of handy wisdom from a computer tekkie. Normally, I ignore newspaper computer […]
It’s the first of the year and it’s Progress time.
Most small-town editors and readers know that time — and as far as editors and reporters are concerned, not too fondly.
For those of you who don’t know; and I suspect there aren’t many, Progress — it’s called different things at different papers — is an attempt […]
Happy New Year.
And we know what that means. It’s time for all those lame Top 20 (or 10) stories of the last year.
Everyone does them. They’re a cliché. And they’re not news. I’m not thrilled with them.
But they are a good fit for an odd time of the year. They make editors’ lives simpler […]
In an earlier post, I said that although newspapers are in a frenzy to move onto the Internet, it was yet another gimmick that would keep them on their chosen road to ruin. Judging that most of the stupid publishers in this country are leading the pack to move to the Web, I’m confident it’s […]
I heard from someone who helps contribute information and ideas to this site.
A small-town paper he liked in a community he liked advertised for a new reporter — and at a salary that was semi-decent (for the newspaper business.
He regarded the paper as a nearly perfect situation for him and given his experience and writing […]
