World News

 

A sampling of the world's press in reporting the Biden presidential election victory and bidding his predecessor farewell: There was “God Bless America” (People, UK), “Exit without dignity” (Bild, Germany), “It’s Joe” (The Observer, UK), “What a liberation, what a relief” (Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany), “Joe Biden vinner” (Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden), “Sleepy Joe wakes up America” (Sunday Times), etc. 

 

And then there was the Ayrshire Daily News in Scotland, near the Trump Turnberry golf course: “South Ayrshire golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election.” 

 

—Agence France Press, “‘God Bless America’: how the world’s newspapers reported Biden’s win,” The Guardian, Oct. 7, 2020.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: All news is local.

 

• Also: “Here's how newspapers around the world reported Biden's win,” Axios. “‘It’s Joe!’ How newspapers around the world reported President-elect Biden’s victory,” CNBC. “’Sleepy Joe wakes up America': Newspapers around the world react to Trump’s defeat,” Daily Mail.

 

 

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Morning comes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

Aslant

 

“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
 

―E.B. White (1899-1985), writer.

• Editorial Comment: Personally, I’m in a slump.

 

 

 

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No, you sit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

Truth

“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” 

 ―Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), Polish-American poet, from his Nobel Lecture, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: If there were more silence, would there be more truth?

 

 

PeezPIX

 

On the waterfront

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

Crumbs

 

“Old cartoonists never die. They merely disappear into the eraser crumbs.”

—Tom Toles has retired as Washington Post editorial cartoonist, Oct. 30, 2020. 

 

• Editorial Comment: What's funny about that?

 

 

PeezPIX

 

Cat man

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

The Plain People

 

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

―H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist (The Baltimore Sun) social critic and author, “Notes on Democracy,” 1926.

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Use your individual ignorance for good. Vote.

 

 

 

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Waiting night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November’s Senior News is delicious. Check out “Especially Now, Food Is Family.”

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

 

 

Avoid Blisters

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

―Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th U.S. President, in a reelection speech, 1864.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Vote.

 

 

 

PeezPIX

 

And there was light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November’s Senior News is delicious. Check out “Especially Now, Food Is Family.”

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