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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
The March 6th issue was quite funny, just not the "Shouts & Murmurs." The front cover was so funny and Anthony Lane's review of Cocaine Bear was hilarious.
Jeff Wrangler:
Do read Jill Lepore on seed catalogs (March 20). Apparently she's quite fond of beets. :)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 04, 2023, 12:09:30 pm ---In the new issue I read the article about the Oscar streaker. Surprised about how long it was but it turns out that the guy, named Robert Opel, had a pretty eventful life. Too bad he and so many of his generation are gone so soon.
Also surprising that the magazine reviewed Spare so favorably. They give a lot of credit to the ghostwriter for making the story almost Shakespearian in scope.
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Finishing up the February 6 issue, I found another worthy article, "The First Composer" by Alex Ross. It's about Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval abbess in Germany. Her teachings, works of literature and music are surprisingly modern and applicable today. I'm going to rewatch the movie about her, "Vision" which is widely available on YouTube, Amazon Prime and Netflix.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 10, 2023, 05:28:29 pm ---Probably a 1099 form instead.
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But if so, what's the difference between a staff writer and a contributor? I figured staff writer must come with a steady paycheck and benefits.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 10, 2023, 05:09:21 pm ---"Suburbs" may be relative. ;D Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is what I would call a small city, but back in the day it had three broadsheet newspapers, a daily morning, a daily evening, and a Sunday. The two dailies were not morning and evening editions of the same paper. They were two separate papers with two separate staffs, though they used the same newsroom. One family published all three papers. (They also owned a local radio station and the local TV station.) The morning paper was Democrat, the evening paper Republican; I think the Sunday paper was non-partisan. I don't remember what the staffing was for the Sunday paper, but it was independent of the dailies; my high-school journalism teacher, the man who taught me to write, was a sports writer for the Sunday News.
It's been years now that the dailies have been collapsed into one paper that in terms of size is much smaller than the old papers. They print op-eds that are both liberal and conservative.
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Wow, three papers for a city of less than 60,000! Similar situation here, though the city is bigger. Papers were owned by the same family and in the same building (though the Sunday paper was part of the morning paper). I think they merged in 1981. Similar thing with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, though I'm not sure what year they merged. Early to mid-'80s, I think.
Don't all papers run both liberal and conservative op-eds, but go one way or another in their editorials? Both of the papers I've worked for lean liberal in their editorials, but I remember the Times-Picayune scandalized everybody by endorsing George H.W. Bush. Ha -- little did we know how great George H. W. Bush would look someday!
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