When I left for work this morning, the TV news people were just starting to eat shit about the incessant loop of the video and pictures of the VT gunman. Last night, on CNN, (sorry[…]
Category: Writing
hating the media
Jack Shafer’s column today on the role of the media when covering tragedies, such as that at Virginia Tech is very interesting (his columns always rock; I wish he’d write something about how the AP[…]
something that confuses me
I’ve never really understood the justification for The Weekly Alibi continuing to run Jerry Ortiz y Pino’s column now that he’s a state legislator. We used to run a column by Jerry as well, but[…]
still drowning
under a crushing work load this week, with little “thises” and “thats” popping up every three minutes. Haven’t slept past 3 am in at least three days.But I haven’t lost my temper yet, even though[…]
annual manual life-sucking force
has taken over. We are in that phase, that final phase, of trying to push out section after section in between signing off on pagee after page of the regular paper. We are all slap[…]