Curated knowlege, trenchant insights & witty bon mots
I came up with these in a Feb. 8, 1998 posting to CAJ-L, an email discussion list for journalists. I think they stand up, so here’s a slightly-tweaked version: Study them, absorb their lessons and then go forth and be controversial (the principles also apply to blog postings):
Mon, September 29 2008 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
I'm trying to find something I once wrote that I thought was rather witty. In that process, I also found this post I made to CAJ-L, an email discussion list for journalists, on June 3, 1997. I thought it might be worth revisiting, given that Canada is currently in election mode. Based on last night, [...]
Mon, September 29 2008 » Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off
Saturday's Report on Business called itself The Debt Issue, and highlighted the following number in red type: $2,587,527,300,000 That would be total U.S. consumer debt … and counting. Here are som other factoids the Globe dug up: $1.62 trillion – In “non-revolving” loans for cars and houses. The figuure was $922 billion in 1999. $970 [...]
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From Globe and Mail Update: A hurricane of bad credit card debt will start crashing ashore in the United States in the first quarter of next year, even as the mortgage crisis continues, analysts at New York research firm Innovest Strategic Value Advisors warned Monday. “A combination of a 10-year steady drip of deteriorating personal [...]
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From a Saturday Globe and Mail column by Avner Mandelman. He talked about how the Roman general Fabius used an early “rope-a-dope” strategy against Hannibal and let the invader destroy the Italian countryside for a while before taking him on: … Today's debt tsunami may have to be allowed to exhaust itself by eating up [...]
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CBC News publisher John Cruickshank has the following headline over his letter about the Sept. 5 Heather Mallick column about Sarah Palin: “We erred in our judgment.” It doesn't get better for Mallick from there. From the letter: The column, by award-winning freelance writer Heather Mallick, was also pilloried by the National Post in Canada and [...]