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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126317502011-04-21T20:45:52.981-07:00the Daily Miracleeyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1129353531356171362005-10-14T21:57:00.000-07:002005-10-14T22:18:51.366-07:00Newspapers: Circling the Wagons from What?

Newspapers have been playing chess in the park with their advertisers while their subscribers are playing online, and the younger generation is playing Quake or searching for porn. All week, Romenesko posted links to articles predicting the new generation of newspapers. That's like predicting who's going to be in the Super Bowl the Saturday before Super Sunday. Newspapers have kept their

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1127423149902730842005-09-22T13:43:00.000-07:002005-09-22T14:05:49.940-07:00My Own Prison

I know what I want to say, but how to start; how to take that first step? A step that will ultimately lead me on to a second step and then into my thirteenth lap around this prison cell town. I can say that because I grew up here and live here now. With headphones draped over my ears like a little girl's headband, I start walking. (I'm not sure how I feel about that headband simile)Headphones

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1125439379220179372005-08-30T14:50:00.000-07:002005-08-30T15:02:59.236-07:00Burning it at Both Ends

You know you're a writer when you light up a cigarette at the beginning of each paragraph. If you get through it - the paragraph that is - before the cigarette, you're plagiarizing. At least that seems to define my writing style. It's not much high-octane, pedal to floor; it's more like a trained meditation - inhaling the fresh-aire scent of bull shit. In some fields, it doesn't matter where

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1124921565900674662005-08-24T15:10:00.000-07:002005-08-24T15:51:42.040-07:00Esquire, the Associated Press, and me

The post begins like a Quentin Tarantino film...with a fetish.fesish - n. 1, an object supposed to embody a spirit; totem. 2, an object of abnormal love or passion. I put Esquire magazine on the same pedistal QT puts his beloved feet and gore. My fingers lead my eyes from word to word across its glossy pages, like the magnetic skin on a woman's breast. Magazines are exactly experienced like

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1120971702669254472005-07-09T20:27:00.000-07:002005-07-09T22:01:42.686-07:00When being a step behind isn't a bad thing

i'm not a morning person. my waking life begins after noon and peaks at 9pm. the morning of the London bombings, though, i was up in time to catch the developments in their immediate aftermath. the news seeped into my skin even before i showered. when i finally did step gingerly into our dilapidated shower/tub, and dressed myself for work, i knew my first real opportunity to be a journalist was

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1119759635264136952005-06-25T21:20:00.001-07:002005-06-29T13:02:49.686-07:00Voices from the commercial Underground

It's always interesting to sit in the breakroom of a chain bookstore, one that's nestled between a Foleys and a Hallmark in a dilapidated mall in a two-college town. Two-thirds of the staff is currenly enrolled in one of the two universities, the other one-third is graduated and has kids. While my ham and cheese sandwiches are heating up in the microwave, I see a library copy of Sex, Drugs and

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1119420074013384642005-06-21T23:01:00.000-07:002005-07-10T13:06:41.666-07:00Journalists Still Inexplicably Read Your LiveJournal

Journalists Still Inexplicably Read Your LiveJournal: " To those of you who are used to seeing nuggets of your internet goodness regularly reprinted in Page Six or reinterpreted in New York mag, the following will come as no surprise. For the rest of you innocent waifs, however, it's time to realize that your trusted journalists rely on the most questionable of sources:...A new study by Euro RSCG

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1118203757885576952005-06-07T21:09:00.000-07:002005-07-10T13:06:54.423-07:00Young people shunning papers, warns News Corp boss

Young people shunning papers, warns News Corp boss: "Media: Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man has warned that fewer and fewer young people are reading newspapers, blaming free papers for the decline."It's true, young people don't read newspapers. Why would they pay for stories that have been cut-and-pasted from syndication services like the AP when one can simply type in web addresses like the

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1118120638577230762005-06-06T21:06:00.001-07:002005-06-29T13:12:30.413-07:00Truth, Integrity, the Big Story - Mainstream Entertainment Media

Where's the drama in city council meetings? It's not the atmosphere, environment, or even what's discussed. The drama in these mundane, routine institutions lies in what's not said, and what's growling in the closets of each council person. These hidden truths are too big for a single person to keep locked away; someone else knows where the key is. That person has become symbolic for American

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1117589434313879622005-05-31T18:30:00.000-07:002005-07-10T13:07:13.796-07:00The Washington Post confirms that Mark Felt is Deep Throat

The Washington Post confirms that Mark Felt is Deep Throat: "Woodward, Bernstein, and Ben Bradlee confirmed the story as well. Woodward is writing an article about the experience to be run on Thursday."After years of speculation, the hunt for "Deep Throat" is now over. By now, you've heard that the Washington Post, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein have all admitted that W. Mark Felt is indeed the

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1116309311006088882005-05-16T22:13:00.000-07:002005-06-29T13:17:20.936-07:00Newspapers...to Die or Sacrifice

Death; senseless, meaningless death. Sans sense, Minus meaning. The death of a close friend; a friend as reckless as he was admirable. An accident. A totaled truck. A wedding he would never remember because he was in a coma, no doubt thinking of the girl he was leaving behind.Death is without purpose, without reason, without sense.Sacrifice is sacred. It's hopeful, fearless..Full of hope without

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1116132777814440642005-05-14T21:32:00.000-07:002005-06-29T13:19:25.540-07:00Newsworthy?

This article appeared on DailyBreeze.com. It's a well-written story: personable, conversationional, and light. If I lived in the Southern California area, I could definately see myself subscribing to the paper if more stories were written like this one - and that says a lot since all of my news-gathering comes from the Internet.But, what's newsworthy about someone who sports a Christmas Tree in

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1115524663840725882005-05-07T20:57:00.000-07:002005-06-29T13:23:06.523-07:00The journalists v blogger heavy-weight title is weighing-in with too much fat.

Media struggling with Blogs: UPI: "UPI reports that traditional media is grappling with dwindling interest and growing criticism from bloggers.I'm a journalist.I'm a blogger.Or maybe, I'm the reverse - a blogger first, then a journalist. No, I'm a person with an opinion and a care about the world first and everything else is second. As a journalist, I'd like to think I've chosen to be a part of a

eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631750.post-1115162748610005332005-05-03T16:25:00.000-07:002005-06-29T13:25:24.953-07:00Prehistoric, maybe, But the Newspaper is Far from Extinct

Some call internet technology the next evolution of convergence. Some call it the uber-combatant in a war between the media. Call it anything you want except a replacement.The newspaper is America's blood and its roots. The newspaper has been around since America was first being colonized. It informed the virgin colonies on happenings in Europe and acted as their printed voices when they had none

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Article one on Newspapers

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