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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Humphrey Bogart from the movie, “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press!


Humphrey Bogart from the movie, “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press!



Ed Hutcheson played by Humphrey Bogart from the movie, “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” @kevindayhoff #partylikeajournalist

"È la stampa, bellezza. E tu non ci puoi fare un bel niente!"

Ed Hutcheson: It's not enough anymore to give 'em just news. They want comics, contests, puzzles. They want to know how to bake a cake, win friends, and influence the future. Ergo, horoscopes, tips on the horses, interpretation of dreams so they can win on the numbers lottery. And, if they accidentally stumble on the first page... news!



Jim Cleary: A journalist makes himself the hero of the story. A reporter is only a witness. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. #partylikeajournalist

On September 29, 2011, Craig Steves wrote on YouTube, “Bob Greene of the Chicago Tribune has called this the best journalism movie ever made. He is absolutely right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn_Y9ZU8hY8

If you are interested in art movies, see Citizen Kane. If you are interested in screwball comedy, check out His Girl Friday. If it's history you're after, watch All the Presidents Men. If you want to see a classic journalism movie, rent one of the multiple versions of The Front Page.

But if you want to see a movie that actually shows you what life is like inside a newsroom, how reporters work together to get a story, and how "the story" is not always about the big expose but sometimes just about getting the little details right, this is your movie.

You can also watch Ron Howard's The Paper, but it's a pale imitation of this movie.

The film brings up, a mere 53 years ago, issues that are relevant today - the tabloids versus real, factual news, and the meaning of a free press. These debates continue today, but unfortunately, it seems that the tabloid type of journalism is winning. As for a free press - our press might be freer than many, but it isn't entirely free. As anyone who lost money in the great savings and loan scandal can tell you, important stories disappear from the front pages all the time.


Bogart's strong performance is the engine that keeps this film going, and there's a nice performance by Kim Hunter as his ex-wife. Deadline USA reminds us of the good old days, when you could believe what you read in the New York Times.”
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Carrie Knauer's Muddling Through Midlife: Writing

Be sure to check out Carrie Knauer's latest piece on her website "Muddling Through Midlife:" http://muddlingthroughmidlife.blogspot.com/

Muddling Through Midlife: Writing:

"Wow, I was really excited to see how many people read my last blog. I got 70 hits in the first day, which is more than any of the previous 9 posts I wrote three to four years ago. Thanks for taking an interest! "

Read more here: http://muddlingthroughmidlife.blogspot.com/2015/01/writing.html

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed… just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards,” Robert Heinlein


“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed… just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards,” attributed to Robert Heinlein. The use of semi-colons is optional.

Warning, writers may find the attached image somewhat disturbing.  That said, non-writers will not understand the attached.  It is from a blog called “Severe Writer’s Block.” 

Although I do not want to jinx myself, I can’t identify with writer’s block.  I can relate to falling asleep at the keyboard and/or being too tired to write; but writer’s block.  Nah. 


“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed… just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards,” attributed to Robert Heinlein at http://severeblock.blogspot.com/2006/01/cat-fight-in-big-house.html Thanks

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

AP Stylebook: state names

AP Stylebook: state names:

AP abbreviations for states

According to the AP Stylebook website on BlogSpot, http://apstylebook.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-names.html

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These are the ZIP code abbreviations for the eight states
that are not abbreviated in datelines or text: AK (Alaska), HI (Hawaii), ID
(Idaho), IA (Iowa), ME (Maine), OH (Ohio), TX (Texas), UT (Utah). Also:
District of Columbia (DC). http://apstylebook.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-names.html

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Princeton University: F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers


F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers

http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/fitzadd/index.html

(C0188):1909-1978


"Bookends" of Fitzgerald's writing career: The Triangle Club at Princeton (1913-1917) and Hollywood (1937-1940)

Manuscripts Division
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library 
1993 (Revised 2001) 

http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/fitzadd/index.html 



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Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Jesse Stone Series by Robert B Parker


In 1997 Parker introduced a new series character, Jesse Stone. Stone has left the LAPD in disgrace over a drinking problem in the wake of his failed marriage, and in an attempt to get his life back together, he’s taken a job as a small-town police chief in Paradise, MA. Struggling with alcoholism and his emotionally tangled relationship with his ex-wife, the actress Jennifer Stone, Stone tries to make a new life for himself in Paradise. (from The Robert Parker Companion)



Split Image

Family ties prove deadly in the brilliant new Jesse Stone novel from New York Times–bestselling author Robert B. Parker.

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Night and Day

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a town's darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the New York Times–bestselling author and "America's greatest mystery writer" (The New York Sun).

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Stranger in Paradise

The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town's history. Crow was part of a team of ex-cons who plotted to capture Stiles Island, the wealthy enclave off the Paradise coast, by blowing up the connecting bridge. Residents were kidnapped, some were killed, and Crow managed to escape with a boatload of cash, never to be seen again. Until now.

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High Profile: A Jesse Stone Novel

The murder of a notorious public figure places Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the media spotlight.

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Sea Change

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in the newest novel in the bestselling series.

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Stone Cold

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns, tracking the path of a pair of thrill killers.

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Death in Paradise

Filled with magnetic characters and the muscular writing that are Parker's trademarks, Death in Paradise is a storytelling masterpiece.

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Trouble in Paradise

Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the one plus ultra of detective fiction. But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for addition to the Parker literary canon.

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Night Passage

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

5 things you should know before dating a journalist http://tinyurl.com/2gx3ksb

5 things you should know before dating a journalist

So, you’ve been eyeing that smart, attractive journalist you’re lucky enough to know personally. You’re intrigued. Your journalist is smart, funny, confident. Visions of Clark Kent taking off the glasses and ripping off his clothes to reveal a perfectly toned body in blue spandex coming to save you run through your head.

Who can blame you? Journalism is a sexy occupation.

But journalists aren’t like the bimbos you usually pick up at the bar. Nor are they the assholes you ladies continually fall for. No, journalists are different beings (which is why you’re attracted to them in the first place), and you should realize — before jumping in — that this isn’t going to be a run-of-the-mill, boring, lame relationship you’re used to.

Here’s what you need to know:

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist

5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/02/5-essential-tools-for-mobile-journalist.html

Mashable – The Social Media Guide

The multi-function playground that is the smartphone has shrunk the capabilities of a van-sized 1970’s news team into the pocket of a single reporter. Today, front-page news can stream from any individual with a cell phone camera and a Twitter account, as it did during Iran’s election protests last summer. Today, major news outlets, such as CNN, have crowdsourced parts of their newsroom to locally-savvy citizen journalists, often armed with little more than a camcorder.

In addition to the standard smartphone equipment, such as a camera and social networking applications, we’ve compiled a list of five additional tools that can help a single journalist rival a fully-functional news team. With these tools, a mobile journalist can record data, edit clips, and broadcast polished stories as events unfold.
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- Mashable’s Social Media Guide for Journalists
- 8 Things to Avoid When Building a Community
- 7 Ways News Media are Becoming More Collaborative
- 10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010
- 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist
- 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

Artist, poet, novelist, musician, and playwright, Rabindranath Tagore, May 7, 1861 –August 7, 1941

In the top photo: Rabindranath Tagore – I do not know the artist-photographer or the date. Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/qc66t or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/251685624/artist-poet-novelist-musician-playwright

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Financial Times: Grime and punishment By John Thornhill

Financial Times: Grime and punishment By John Thornhill Published: October 30 2009

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a025dd92-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html
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“But modern-day Russia poses particular challenges to the fiction writer: everyday life appears so outlandish, at times, that it would be near-impossible to imagine it if it did not already exist. In a country that can elect to parliament a former KGB officer accused by the British police of murdering a British citizen by slipping radioactive poison into his tea, it must be a hard job for a fiction writer to know where reality ends and fantasy begins. Even the most mundane event can seemingly be explained only by convoluted conspiracy theory. Even the most fantastical event appears commonplace. Truth is so enmeshed in fiction that fiction has had to accelerate to outstrip it.” - Grime and punishment By John Thornhill

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/11/financial-times-grime-and-punishment-by.html

Financial Times tells it like it is (about modern Russian fiction)


“The death of Russian literature has been declared many times. Russian poetry was supposed to have perished tragically early, interred with the body of Alexander Pushkin in 1837 following his fateful duel. Then along came Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva, an astonishing quartet of poets who revived and reinvented the genre in an explosion of creativity in the early 20th century.

“Epic Russian novels, meanwhile, were pronounced dead after Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. But in describing the brutalities of the second world war and the gulag, Vasily Grossman and Alexander Solzhenitsyn proved worthy heirs of those 19th-century masters.

“Once again it has become fashionable to argue that Russian fiction is over, buried under the rubble of the former Soviet Union. Critics have decreed that no classic works of Russian literature have emerged in the past 18 years.

“That may be true, but green shoots are now pushing through the fallen masonry. Four new Russian novels reveal flashes of fabulous writing, at times reminiscent of the wild imaginings of Mikhail Bulgakov, the dystopic visions of Yevgeny Zamyatin or the gentle humanity of Anton Chekhov. Russian literature has long ago left Socialist Realism panting behind – now it is striding out in the company of Capitalist Surrealism.

“But modern-day Russia poses particular challenges to the fiction writer: everyday life appears so outlandish, at times, that it would be near-impossible to imagine it if it did not already exist. In a country that can elect to parliament a former KGB officer accused by the British police of murdering a British citizen by slipping radioactive poison into his tea, it must be a hard job for a fiction writer to know where reality ends and fantasy begins. Even the most mundane event can seemingly be explained only by convoluted conspiracy theory. Even the most fantastical event appears commonplace. Truth is so enmeshed in fiction that fiction has had to accelerate to outstrip it.”


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Read the rest of the article here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a025dd92-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html

20091030 sdsom FT Grime and punishment By John Thornhill

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Writer Johanna Harness

Writer Johanna Harness

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Johanna Harness says on her web site: “I write novels. I spend my days living in other worlds, connecting with imaginary people, and telling lies. When I’m not dissembling at a keyboard, I’m scheming what my characters will do next. Every chance I get, I’m stealing moments away from the real world so I can bleed words onto paper. It’s a good life.”

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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Perplexing Situations… by Patricia A. Kelly

October 1, 2009 Perplexing Situations… Patricia A. Kelly:

“Writing a column is a very interesting occupation. It’s changed me. I’m more curious about the details of things, and in really looking for the truth among all the stories, charges, political posturing and innuendo. I work to insure there is truth behind my comments. I look for answers to dilemmas that face our society. Paying attention is exhausting, though, and the more you do it, the more discouraging things appear…”

Read her entire column here:

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3389

20091001 Perplexing Situations by Patricia A Kelly

Art Library Writers Writing, Journalists, Journalists Kelly Patricia A, Media The Tentacle
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Joan Didion “Her prose is her servant”

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Joan Didion “Her prose is her servant” http://tinyurl.com/le6r5e

Technically, Didion is immaculate and original. As early as 1963, literary critic Guy Davenport could say, "Her prose is her servant" (371). She understands grammar as a source of "infinite power":

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.... The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind.... The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what's going on in the picture. (Didion 1986, 7)

“If I could believe that going to a barricade would affect man's fate in the slightest I would go to that barricade, and quite often I wish that I could, but it would be less than honest to say that I expect to happen upon such a happy ending” Joan Didion, Morning, After the Sixties 1979 p208


From “Joan Didion” by Sandra Braman
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~despey/didion.htm
Retrieved September 9, 2009
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Monday, July 06, 2009

WP ombud: Growing numbers of readers are complaining about typos and small errors

WP ombud: Growing numbers of readers are complaining about typos and small errors

Washington Post Why that's happening: Between early 2005 and mid-2008, the number of full-time WP copy editors dropped from about 75 to 43 through buyouts or voluntary departures, reports Andrew Alexander.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=166262

Jul. 6, 2009 Copy editing

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Friday, July 03, 2009

Enough already with ‘mediums’

Friday, July 03, 2009

Hey, fellow armchair copyeditors, do you see anything wrong with this sentence at the Los Angeles Times website?“Two senior Los Angeles Times editors were given new responsibilities today as part of an effort to create a 24-hour newsroom serving multiple mediums.”
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Video tribute to journalists: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’

Video tribute to journalists: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’

Kurt Greenbaum – “STL Social Media Guy”: Video tribute: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’ December 15, 2008 by Kurt

Hat Tip: Lauren King

Writers in the “Post-Dispatch’s newsroom conspired to put together this video/commentary on the industry.” Its quite good…

“Pass it on to your journalism friends: A humorous look at the state of journalism today just in time for the holidays. All in good fun. And by someone who believes firmly in the ability of the Web to save our industry.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTENC6wK3p4&eurl=http://www.igreenbaum.com/2008/12/video-tribute-god-rest-ye-weary-journalists/



20081215 Video tribute: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect

Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect

Hat Tip: Truthout

Blaming History Friday 19 December 2008

Michael Tomasky explains how Milan Kundera's The Joke changed his view of politics.

So the assignment is "a book that changed my view of politics." Harder than it sounds. I will confess that when I was a younger man, I was far more likely to think of records, as we used to call them, as life-changing, and if pressed, I could probably to this day defend the proposition that The Basement Tapes taught me as much about America as did, say, either John Steinbeck or V.O. Key.

I could name something predictable by Schlesinger or Hofstadter, or one of those seminal works on the 1960s or Watergate that I and most other American liberal males of my generation display on our shelves and in select cases have actually read to completion. But the idea of "life changing" led me to reach into the memory hole for those rare occasions when reading a book so fired my mind that, while I was immersed in it, I could think of nothing else. You know the feeling: You can't wait for work or class to finish so you can plow back into the book; as you near the end, you actually slow down because you don't want it to stop and can't imagine not being able to read it anymore.

It turns out that it's a novel, Milan Kundera's The Joke, that met for me the above criteria: The book is quite political and contains within its pages lessons about how people adapt to the larger political contexts in which they live. These are lessons that were and are more universal than one might assume - given that Kundera was assaying totalitarian society - about what can happen when the stirrings of the soul are thwarted by the imperatives of the state.

Read the entire essay here: Blaming History by Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect

20081219 Blaming History by Michael Tomasky for The American Propsect
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