The Perfect Job

“The editor is one of the happiest individuals in the world. He can go to the circus in the afternoon and evening without paying a nickel; also to inquests and hangings.”

 

—Commentary, The Elko (Nevada) Free Press, April 1887.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editorial Comment: Who wouldn't want that job?

 

 

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Bear

 

 

 

 

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard

 

Truth

“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ”

 

—Richard Whately (1787-1863), English theologian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editorial Comment: Is that true?

 

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It’s out there

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD 

 

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard

Super

“[A] writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”

―E.B. White (1899-1985), super writer.

Editorial Comment: And then there's the leaping tall buildings thing . . .

 

 

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Sourdough

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD 

 

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard

Unthinkable

“Do you realize how much of cable news is going to have nothing to talk about now that Trump is gone or allegedly gone? Don’t get mad at me here, folks. I’m just saying that without Trump in the White House providing media fodder countless hours per day, they’re not going to know what to do.”

—Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio airbag, broaching the unthinkable: that Biden might have won the election. See Don Gonyea, “How Republicans Are Reacting To Biden’s Victory,” NPR, Dec. 15, 2020.

Editorial Comment: I suppose news would be out of the question?

 

 

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HoHoHo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD 

 

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard

Danger!

 

“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’”

―Helen Exley, British author and book publisher, “. . . And Wisdom Comes Quietly,” 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

Editorial Comment: What's the most dangerous book you’ve ever read?

 

 

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Magical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard

Murrow

 

“[O]ur history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge, and retribution will not limp in catching up with us.

― Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), broadcast newsman, in his famed “wires and lights in a box” speech to the Radio-Television News Directors Assn. convention, 1958.

 

Editorial Comment: Retribution is at hand.

 

 

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Cloudshow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December’s Senior News: Holidays Past & Present. Pick one up for your elf.

 

FREE! Get TODAY'S WORD ON JOURNALISM in your email This free “service” is sent to 2,000,000 or so subscribers around the planet more or less every weekday morning during WORD season. If you have recovered from whatever illness led you to subscribe and don’t want it anymore, send “unsubscribe” to ted.pease@gmail.com. Or if you want to afflict someone else, send me the email address and watch the fun begin. (Disclaimer: I just quote ’em, I don’t necessarily endorse ’em. Don’t shoot the messenger.) 

Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard