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‘New Clothes’“As of today, we are shedding print on a daily basis. But the Monitor itself . . . is becoming more daily than ever. No longer inked on wood pulp, no longer trucked from printing plants to your mailbox, no longer published only five days a week, the daily Monitor is now a dynamic online newspaper on all days. . . .Think of it this way: We are putting on new clothes for a new era, but we are the same Monitor, committed to the same objective we have adhered to since we were launched a century ago: ‘to injure no man but to bless all mankind.’”
“I’ll always remember the Monitor as a liberator, a polite agitator, an open-minded newspaper that gave voice to many writers in many places around the world. It is only a small stretch to describe this newspaper as an early successful experiment in ’open-source’ journalism—long before the Internet and Linux.”• And click here for a collection of reminiscences by Monitor old-timers.
(Thanks to alert WORDster Brad Knickerbocker)
Editorial Comment: Next, a computer screen in the john.
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The EMPEROR had new clothes, too.
ReplyDeleteOnly it seems to me that didn't work out so well.
Peace.
hodges
So the Monitor likes my clothes analogy, but you ("reminiscences from Monitor old-timers") and Nader ("I'll always remember the Monitor as . . . ") insist on eulogizing the death of the clothes rather than celebrating the continuing life of the entity.
ReplyDeleteAnd why not a computer screen in the john? Tell me you've never taken your cell phone or Blackberry or whatever in there? Maybe even checked a message or sent one?
Puh-leeze.
P.S. It's nice to have you back from your forced furlough.
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