A while back I was glued on to the IFC show The minor accomplishment of Jackie somebody or another because the show revolved around wannabe writers. Who here, with aspirations in wariting, wouldn't tune in to something like that? There comes a time when a person just has to go with the flow and tune in on the stuff that's popular, because, in the ( Read more... )

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It's published, but now what?

by Julia Keller LA Times, 7/19/8, §E12
Here's an interest predicament writers find themselves in after they've passed the painstaking task of writing their manuscripts. Once they've compiled everything for the printers and make their investment to publish their books, they're stuck with hundreds, if not thousands of ( Read more... )

(click for illustration) Sometimes I wish I had the training that librarians get on the subject of research. It's marvelous how they can pull up answers on the Internet on almost any subject put to them. I've been in a quandary over the voice of one KFWB reporter that I hear infrequently. She calls herself Lisa de Jardin and she sounds a lot like ( Read more... )

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Anguish in Connecticut follows a chilling hit & run
Los Angeles Times, AP 6/6/8
The Associated Press released a story about a 78 year old man who was critically injured after he was runned over by two vehicles. After a surveillance camera captured the entire incident, it was seen that nobody who'd witnessed the accident made an attempt to help by ( Read more... )

While the undergound publishing market is slowly being repressed by the major networks' concern over protecting the copyrights of their writers, bloggers and zinesters may appear to be merging their expertise to combat how news sites limit the manipulation of their sources. When General Petaeus† was trying to speak during the senate hearings back ( Read more... )

Trading on his connection
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by Joel Sappell, L.A. Times Column-one, 8\4\7

What will become of the information age when news organizations change the way they allow linking to stories? This is the question quoted of a PEJ director, Tom Rosenstiel, whom emphasis of fly-by-night success stories indicates that the current ( Read more... )