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See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - Jan 17, 2005 3:54:19 pm PST #5120 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
erikaj - Jan 17, 2005 3:56:52 pm PST #5121 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
P-C, you are now me, last week. Look out.
Rick - Jan 17, 2005 3:56:56 pm PST #5122 of 10002
it won't run until next week because I need to interview some stupid doctor who will say the things I already looked up in the literature.
This is the thing that drives me crazy about journalists. They call you up and want to talk about some topic. You direct them to a great paper written by the biggest expert on the topic, and they say "No, I need to talk to someone. It's ok if you don't know that much about it. Just give me something to quote." It seems so strange that journalists, of all people, should fail to grasp the value of the written word as a source of information.
JohnSweden - Jan 17, 2005 3:59:27 pm PST #5123 of 10002
I can't even.
You are a major league kinkster!
Huh. And yet, no orgies or dungeons.
erikaj - Jan 17, 2005 4:00:43 pm PST #5124 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I know, we do, babe. but we have bosses that tell us things like we need to have someone ACTUALLY TELL US that "Washing your hands frequently is good for your health," to use an example from my student days, like we need somebody to confirm or deny such things.
Amy - Jan 17, 2005 4:00:45 pm PST #5125 of 10002
Because books.
Apparently I have "sweet hints of a kinky nature". Why does this seem like a contradiction in terms?
Feel better ~ma to Mr. Broom! How was New York?
Cashmere - Jan 17, 2005 4:01:41 pm PST #5126 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Journalism sucks.
It does, indeed, says the girl with the journalism degree that only worked in the industry for 3 months. Any longer and I would have starved to death while working insane hours.
Scrappy - Jan 17, 2005 4:04:24 pm PST #5127 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Is the rationale because journalism is supposed to be immediate and present tense, so having someone say something right now is more effective than quoting what someone wrote in the past, even the recent past?
DCJensen - Jan 17, 2005 4:05:05 pm PST #5128 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
It seems so strange that journalists, of all people, should fail to grasp the value of the written word as a source of information.
As a rule, it is not journalists who fail to grasp this. It is generally the more pedantic editors who see more value in the quote or immediately "fresh" statement than in actual scholarship.
Don't get me wrong, there are great editors. It's just that, like reporters, there are a lot of by-the-numbers hacks who should not be working in the field.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2005 4:09:06 pm PST #5129 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
t dusts off the B.A. in journalism....
In general, "news" articles have a better hook when they include actual quotes by actual Live! Hot! Exxxxperts! than if they were just paragraph after paragraph of info, no matter how well-written.
Journalism is as much a product to sell as anything else. (So there, Lloyd Dobbler!)
Scientific articles, on the other hand -- at least the research articles that my journal publishes -- don't need quotes by Live! Hot! Scientists! to sell the articles.
t /puts degree back in closet, under Nehru jacket and daishiki