9/11 Remembered

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The Press’s Dark Days

“The atmosphere was one of fear, suspicion, a tremendous emphasis on patriotism, on getting on board. It put pressure on journalists to conform, to go with the pack.

“And people who asked questions that were regarded as too uncomfortable were berated or accused of being unpatriotic, or marginalized. A lot of voices were left out of the debate.”

—Michael Massing, journalist, who called 9/11 reporting “one of the greatest institutional failures in the news media,” quoted in “9/11 raised debate on responsible reporting,” Radio France Internationale, 2011

• Editorial Comment: Deafening silence.

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Above the Sidelines Bar, Arcata, Calif.





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Cheap Thrills

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Filling Dead Spots

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”  

—Stephen King, writer

• Editorial Comment: Batteries not included.

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Peach & Blackberry Pie











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The Reading Public

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Marketing

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“The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ‘significant literature’ will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods that are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.” 

—Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), mystery novelist and screenwriter, letter to fellow detective novelist Erle Stanley Gardner, 1946.

• Editorial Comment: Literary toothpaste?

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Trinidad Sunset





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Career Advice

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Happy Delusion

“When you’re trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.”

—Michael Lewis, author of Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013)

 





• Editorial Comment: This year I'm gonna finish that novel. First step: Start the damn thing.




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Trinidad Sunset





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Godwin’s Law

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Incivility

“Godwin’s Law is the only half-facetious observation of Internet guru Mike Godwin that, ‘as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.’ 

“Whether it’s Nazis or something else, the broader point is that commentary in any online forum seems to veer towards the vicious or extreme. (Indeed, a contemporary equivalent of the two-decades-old Godwin’s Law might focus on Obama: No matter what the topic, sooner or later someone blames the president). 

“Sometimes, it appears, there is no room for moderation on the Internet.” 

—Tom Keane, columnist, “Not just for the witless”

The Boston Globe, on HuffPost’s decision to ban anonymous online comments, Aug. 27, 2013 URL (Thanks to alert WORDster Javan Kienzle)

 
• Anonymous Editorial Comment: $^&*%¢∞§¶º^%$!!!! Nazi Kenyan Social Democrats!

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Stella’s life jacket









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Monkeys & Sheep Lice

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Why We Write

“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.”

 —Anne Lamott, writer, in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994)

• Editorial Comment: How about all those monkeys with typewriters? Oh, wait. That was my old newsroom.

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Lobstah Dinnah.






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Divine

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Clean-up Crew

“To write is human. To edit is divine.”

 —Stephen King, writer

 

• Editorial Comment: Send your editor a nice box of chocolates.









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GIGO*

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Bad Intelligence

“Our house is on fire. Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.” 

—Scott Pelley, CBS News and “60 Minutes” correspondent, accepting 2013 Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, May 10, 2013 URL Video 

 
• Editorial Comment: *GIGO = garbage in, garbage out.




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Writing Strategies

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Damn

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

—Mark Twain (1835-1910), writer

• Editorial Comment: Damn good advice.










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Sadie’s Bad Trip in the North Coast Journal tells the tale of Sadie, the doper dawg. Aug. 1, 2013




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Koched

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No Sale

“We think it’s a victory for the people of Los Angeles, the people of California and the people of any city in which Tribune has a newspaper. We think it’s a victory for independent news itself.”

 —Eddie Kurtz, organizer of protests against Koch brothers’ plans to purchase the Tribune Co., on news that the Kochs were no longer interested. Aug. 22, 2013 URL

• Editorial Comment: Anyone else interested in a bunch of sagging major metro newspapers?

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RIP Elmore

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Rule 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip

“A rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he's writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character's head, and the reader either knows what the guy's thinking or doesn't care. I'll bet you don't skip dialogue.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”

—Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), crime novelist, who died last week. Obit, including video tribute, Detroit News.

• See “Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing,” The Detroit Press, August 20, 2013 

• Editorial Comment: Not much hooptedoodle in Get Shorty, or wherever Elmore is now. I hope.

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Tuna Trip






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Not AGAIN!?! The WORD Escapes Again

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Criminy! The WORD Is Back for Season 18

“No, no no no NO!!” shouted Dr. Con Jugate, all in a furious lather.

For the 18th straight August, the international pest known as Today’s WORD on Journalism eluded the inept attendants at St. Mumbles Home for the Terminally Verbose, where the recidivist journalistic gadfly is regularly incarcerated for treatments.

Jugate, the sanitarium’s superintendent, was frothing.

“Those $%^&#*^%!!@ boneheads!” he yelled, spitting and kicking the furniture. “He told them he was going to buy a pizza, and they just let him go.”

The WORD, whose daily doses of “wisdom” on matters journalistic, political, social and cultural have afflicted decent folk on five continents since 1995, had been a, er, “guest” at St. Mumbles since May, when white-jacketed attendants collected the blathering serial quoter from a freshman dorm at Utah State University.

He has spent the summer convalescing at the remote coastal rest home, playing Scrabble, lounging on the porch and secretly collecting new quotes on the press to torment a troubled media world.

“We thought he liked it here,” said Steve, one of the Scrabble regulars, laying down C-A-T on a double word for a whopping eight points. “I really thought he’d stay this time.”

The WORD was first admitted and first escaped from St. Mumbles in 1995 after his opening season quoting wise guys on journalism. Since then, the WORD’s, um, “influence” has spread worldwide, and last year the International Bloviaters League and Tribune of Hairbrained Editors & Reporters (IBLaTHER) honored the serial email pest with its coveted Junkmail Award.

Anyway, the WORD is out again, gentle and unsuspecting readers. Brace yourselves.

As usual, we launch this season with the ever-useful wisdom of the genial former colonial Royal High Pontentate of the Virginia Colony, whose high regard for both education and the press rings with an increasingly popular fervor today. Enjoy!

• • •

TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM—The Perennial Season Opener
“I thank God we have no free schools or printing, and I hope that we shall not have these for a hundred years. For learning has brought disobediences and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both.” 

—Sir William Berkeley 
Governor, Virginia Colony, 1671

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Back-story: The WORD was originally concocted (“conceived” is, I think, altogether too grand) as a way to get journalism students to pay attention to their email. Strange as it may sound, email was a new and unpleasant disturbance of the general peace back in 1995, and many students did not then spend 16 hours a day online. As a professor hoping to get and keep their attention while also instructing them, my object was that the WORD would give them something to think about before class. Hope, like the WORD, springs eternal.

I think it’s fair to say that this strategy was a dismal failure. Most of my students continue to ignore their daily WORDs and gaily accept point reductions on their quizzes for not knowing the day's wordish wisdom from philosophers ranging from Soren Kierkegaard to Brian Williams to Lisa Simpson.

But the WORD has become rather frighteningly popular with non-students—purported grown-ups, mostly, who actually ask to be afflicted or who send email addresses of unsuspecting friends/colleagues/parents/bosses, so that they might be victimized as well.

When the WORD was trundled by those nice white-jacketed men into St. Mumbles last spring, about 1,800 (mostly volunteer) victims subscribed to the direct email WORD list. More got the WORD by checking the website, whence it was linked and Tweeted and forwarded like a pox to many more unsuspecting victims by so-called “friends.”

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Another Final WORD

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The time has come . . . 

. . .  the Walrus said, to speak of other things. . . .
Another season ends, dear friends, 
the WORD’s fat lady sings.

Veteran WORDwatchers know what this means: The rusty van with the chronic muffler problem from St. Mumbles Home for the Terminally Verbose pulled up outside the Dorm in the wee hours this morning to collect the sanitarium’s most recidivist inmate.

There was no worry that the meat wagon’s backfires might alert the target: After a year as the Dorm Mother in a freshman dorm, to say nothing of the strain of herding another gaggle of students toward sentience and literacy, the WORD can sleep through anything.

Few mourned (or noticed, really) as the WORD was tenderly but tightly wrapped in a cozy de-obfuscation Snuggi for the 900-mile trip west to St. Mumbles. An intensive regimen of weight loss, deconjugation and heavy cerebral editorial sanding is planned for the moribund WORDman. After his 17th season of spreading crap far and wide, he’s tired. Indeed, this May marks a significant milestone, as the WORDman relinquishes his administrative role and follows his darling girl into the Next Phase after 19 years at Utah State. It’s been a good run.

Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Edward Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.

          —Nantucket, Mass., gravestone, 1882 (only very lightly edited)

Enuff, gentle and patient readers. We follow another crop of graduates out the door and close down for the summer. The redwoods, the mighty Toad, the hammock and a promising salmon season beckon, and a lot of foggy walks and yogatime are needed.

As Karl Marx, the famous philosopher-comic, said, “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” So don’t take this the Last WORD—Lord knows there are always more!—but just the end of this episode. Look for the WORD’s escape from St. Mumbles in August, once again to afflict—merrily, gaily, happily—an unsuspecting world.

Per tradition, however, we like to end on the same note, invoking wise of city editor Stanley Walker:

“What makes a good newspaperman? The answer is easy. He knows everything. He is aware not only of what goes on in the world today, but his brain is a repository of the accumulated wisdom of the ages. He is not only handsome, but he has the physical strength which enables him to perform great feats of energy. He can go for nights on end without sleep. He dresses well and talks with charm. Men admire him; women adore him; tycoons and statesmen are willing to share their secrets with him. He hates lies and meanness and sham, but he keeps his temper. He is loyal to his paper and to what he looks upon as the profession; whether it is a profession, or merely a craft, he resents attempts to debate it. When he dies, a lot of people are sorry, and some of them remember him for several days.”

—Stanley Walker, newspaperman, The New York Herald-Tribune, 1924

• Editorial Comment: Honey, get me rewrite!

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from word curmudgeon William Safire, with his useful rules for writers? Click here.

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