Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Marilyn Monroe and the Real Value of Profits

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An obscure 1951 film that fell out of copyright gained some new life in the home video market simply because a then practically unknown Mar...
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

'How Many Shopping Days Until Christmas?'

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If you landed here because you asked your search engine, "How many shopping days until Christmas?," the answer as this went to pre...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Stating the obvious in a single newspaper headline

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Charlottesville's Daily Progress wins the prize for stating the obvious in its banner headline on Sunday, October 12. There, above th...
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Daily Progress to Charge More for Thanksgiving Day Edition

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Today I received this message in my email box from Lawrence McConnell, publisher of the Charlottesville Daily Progress : On Thanksgiving Da...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Replying to Critics of My RTD Piece on Theodore Roosevelt

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Over the weekend, the Richmond Times-Dispatch published an opinion piece I wrote with the headline, " Why does Obama channel racist TR...
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Sunday, August 07, 2011

Today's RTD: 'Third-Party Resurgence Seems Unlikely'

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A couple of weeks ago (July 26, to be precise), Coy Barefoot invited me to be a guest on his WINA-AM radio program, "Charlottesville R...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Homophones

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The New York Daily News today has an article on its web site about Vice President Joe Biden using "colorful" language in introdu...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Survey Says? Bloggers Shape Opinion

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The second of two (so far) annual surveys by the Society for New Communications Research has found that professional journalists have a str...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Congressman Rob Wittman at Blogs United

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Anticipating by just a couple of hours the appearance of two potential opponents at the Blogs United conference last weekend, U.S. Represen...

Journalists' Panel at Blogs United

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Political candidates were not the only special guests at the Blogs United conference held at Christopher Newport University in Newport News...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Asking for Whom the Bell Tolls?

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Forget about the sacking of its top three business-side executives, or the "resignations" of executive editor John Solomon and ed...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Watch Your Language!

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A couple of items from today's Daily Progress deserve comment because of their infelicitous use of the English language (which, as Henr...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

WaPo Endorses Four GOP House Candidates

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In its endorsements for about two dozen races for the House of Delegates in Northern Virginia, the Washington Post has selected just four R...
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