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Yes, and in Frontier journalism, you could spell anything anyway you wanted. Kind of like now.
Larry
---- Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "I'm an old media guy and I love newspapers, but they were brought down
> by a long period of gluttonous profits when they were run as monopolies
> by large, phlegmatic, semi-literate men who endowed schools of
> journalism that labored mightily to stamp out any style or originality
> and to create a cadre of reliable transcribers. That was their role,
> crushing writers and rolling them into cookie dough. Nobody who compares
> newspaper writing to the swashbuckling world of blogging can have any
> doubt where the future lies. Bloggers are writers who've been liberated
> from editors, and some of them take you back to the thrilling days of
> frontier journalism, before the colleges squashed the profession."
>
> Garrison Keillor on Salon
> <http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/12/new_media/index.html>
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