Many will remember the immortal words of J.M. Barrie in Peter Pan: “If you believe in fairies, then clap your hands.” Many are urging us to do the same for newspapers. For some commentators clapping our hands might represent the only hope remaining for the daily newspaper in the U.S.
I thought of this as I [...]
I know I quote extensively from the New York Times in these blogs — what can I do — it’s a great newspaper (remember those?). In today’s Times is a perfect article by Andrew Adam Newman called “Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes.” Needless to say, it discusses extensively the past, present [...]
A surprisingly strong article appears in tomorrow’s New York Times (July 27, 2008) that tackles the ongoing and vexing issue of whether the increasing hours spent by youngsters on the Web, often at the expense of reading books and other sustained verbal constructions, is turning them into babbling drones, or whether it’s possible that new [...]
This marvelous document appears on the Tell Zell: What You Really Think blog, “courtesy of Andrew Spencer, now 10. Sent in and used with the permission of his mom, Gail Gedan Spencer, a blogger and copy editor at the Sun”
I’ll just note a small part of her commentary, and encourage you to visit the site.
“I’m [...]
A glowing article in last Monday’s New York Times alerted readers that Esquire magazine, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, has figured out a trick to gain admittance to the future of publishing party.
The cover of its September issue, or rather the cover of the newsstand version of the September issue, will be “printed” with [...]
Many will have read the news that last Sunday Tyson Gay
set a new record of 9.68 seconds in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, although
the victory was disqualified as a world-record because it was “wind-aided.â€Â
The story making the blog rounds today is a hilarious
footnote to his notable performance.
A posting
by Amy Gahran at Poynter Online [...]
