P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

This Is What You Get When You Fire Half Your Staff

August 25, 2024

Shame must be a foreign concept to the modern newspaper staff. From the Bay Area News Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of vulture capitalists:

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Northwest of what?

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The kicker is the line above the headline. The decks are the lines below. Those words are supposed do be replaced with actual content. “More Mush From The Wimp.”

And from CNN:

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How much longer before on-line headlines become incomprehensible? Moved from where?

 

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