My friend and veteran journalist Joseph Bell gives you his Independence Day column.
http://www.dailypilot.com/columns/story/17272p-24159c.html
Go ahead, you tell the 80+-year-old WWII combat veteran he’s disloyal. Old guys rule.
Tag: journalism
Product placement in magazines
I remember journalism! It was this cool thing that we had when I was a kid, where ornery underpaid people wrote things and were paid for it because advertisers knew people liked to read it. Anyway, now we’re just going to make it all an ad anyway, and dispense with those troublesome ink-stained wretches.
We are all an advertorial now.
Welcome to the richest hick town in California.
Our local rag, the Orange County Register, now has a “blog”.
In their case this means boring, self-satisfied right-wing slop. It’s not even a blog really. No commenting, no syndication. It’s all the high-quality writing and careful fact checking of the bloggers with all the spontaneity and interactivity of a newspaper! I think I’d rather watch FOX News. Their goebbeling is snappier and sometimes there are cute girls in the shampoo ads.
It does have these losers’ email on it, though, so you can goatse them at least.
Yes, we are still a provincial backwater with no style or class. We’re just a very, very rich one these days.
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