Exciting Truth

 

“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it .” 

 

—Pearl S. Buck (aka Sai Zhenzhu) (1892-1973), missionary, author and winner of both Pulitzer (1932) and Nobel (1938) Prizes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Live it up.

 

 

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Grover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The October issue of SENIOR NEWS is out. Online here.

 

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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

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism

A Tough Sell

 

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

—George Orwell

(1903-1950), writer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: You can lead a horse to water . . . but you can't make him think.

 

 

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Sourdough Teddy Bread

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The October issue of SENIOR NEWS is out. Online here.

 

FREE! TODAY'S WORD ON JOURNALISM This free “service” is sent to rafts of subscribers worldwide 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: Don’t shoot the messenger. I just quote ’em, I don’t necessarily endorse ’em.)

 

“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

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism

Lowering Expectations

 

“News organizations have to stop using the phrase: ’We go beyond the headlines.’ That’s your job, dummy. You don’t see American Airlines saying, ‘We land our jets on the runway!”

 

—Bill Maher, commentator, comedian and TV host, and author of “New Rules: Polite Musings From a Timid Observer,” 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: “We flew American and lived!”

 

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Dancing Alders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The October issue of SENIOR NEWS is out. Online here.

 

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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

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism

Irrelevance

 

“Irrelevance is a great blessing. . . . So I skip reading the newspaper, preferring not to waste the day in hopeless anger, and instead drink my coffee and write a wedding sonnet for a couple in California and joke with my daughter who is starting a new life in a new city and sit with my wife and enjoy the breeze and smell the hydrangeas.” 

 

—Garrison Keillor, blissfully irrelevant, “A suddenly older man scans life’s romance,” Garrison Keillor and Friends, Aug. 18, 2021. 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: No one with hydrangeas thinks them irrelevant.

 

 

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Seastack morning from the boat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The October issue of SENIOR NEWS is out. Online here.

 

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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

 

_____________
Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism

No News

 

NOTE: In May, notorious hedge fund vulture Alden Global Capital acquired the Tribune Co., including the Chicago Tribune and its dwindled family of newspapers. 

 

“Chicago’s wealthy class failed the city by refusing to rescue the Chicago Tribune from a hedge fund. A newspaper is both a watchdog and a binding agent. The weaker the media, the more inequitable a city is allowed to be. Rich Chicagoans sent a signal that they do not care.” 

 

—Mark Jacob, a former Chicago Tribune editor, in Margaret Sullivan, “America’s rich people could have saved local journalism — and perhaps democracy. They refused,” The Washington Post, May 21, 2021.

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Let ’em eat cake.

 

 

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The October issue of SENIOR NEWS is out. Online here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FREE! TODAY'S WORD ON JOURNALISM This free “service” is sent to rafts of subscribers worldwide 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: Don’t shoot the messenger. I just quote ’em, I don’t necessarily endorse ’em.)

 

“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

 

_____________
Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism