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On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:54:11 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: I have some limited experience with Truman, Of course you do. Nothing gets mentioned here that you do not have personal experience with. Some day tell us about how you and Lincoln wrote that Gettysburg speech together. |
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On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:52:51 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 10:22 AM, wrote: On 19 Aug 2017 19:03:06 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote: wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:54:11 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have some limited experience with Truman, Of course you do. Nothing gets mentioned here that you do not have personal experience with. Some day tell us about how you and Lincoln wrote that Gettysburg speech together. I went into a profession that gave me the opportunity to meet some famous people. You fixed computers. I guess I was able to derive my joy from what I was doing and not from living vicariously through the people I was able to meet. If that was ll I wanted, I would have been a waiter. Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. |
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On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 5:31:53 PM UTC-5, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:52:51 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 10:22 AM, wrote: On 19 Aug 2017 19:03:06 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote: wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:54:11 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have some limited experience with Truman, Of course you do. Nothing gets mentioned here that you do not have personal experience with. Some day tell us about how you and Lincoln wrote that Gettysburg speech together. I went into a profession that gave me the opportunity to meet some famous people. You fixed computers. I guess I was able to derive my joy from what I was doing and not from living vicariously through the people I was able to meet. If that was ll I wanted, I would have been a waiter. Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. Its still far larger than yours. You have very little original thought. By the way, are quaint little statements like that your only lasting defence? |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. |
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On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. |
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On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities, such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which, for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was, the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star. Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk, typewriter, and, of course, spittoon. Here's a picture of The Star building... http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been moved to another facility. |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:21:04 -0600 (MDT), justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. I'm sure Greg is impressed. However you failed to offer proof that this story is true. We've caught you in so many lies. Is this another one? I would put money on it. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities, such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which, for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was, the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star. Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk, typewriter, and, of course, spittoon. Here's a picture of The Star building... http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been moved to another facility. You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book, does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a lot higher than yours. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. So, proof you are intellectually lazy. |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:01:20 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for the supposed word smith you profess to be. Real writers write. bull****ters bull ****. |
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On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities, such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which, for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was, the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star. Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk, typewriter, and, of course, spittoon. Here's a picture of The Star building... http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been moved to another facility. You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book, does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a lot higher than yours. The ability to be nosy, to be able to research, and the ability to write are the usual requirements for a new reporter. A journalism degree is neither required nor necessary. The first day on my job at The Star, the day city editor told me to "forget anything you learned at J-school...we'll teach you our way." Fortunately, I had taken only a couple of courses at journalism school, one of which, typography, was of no use at the paper, but useful later in life, so there was little to forget. I took the J-school courses to be closer to my sweetie at the time, a delicious redhead who did graduate from j-school. What was that saying at the engineering school...oh, year... "Yesterday, I couldn't spell engineer, but today I are one." |
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On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. So, proof you are intellectually lazy. No, Bilious, it isn't "proof" of anything like that. |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:37:09 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 8/21/17 11:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:01:20 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for the supposed word smith you profess to be. Real writers write. bull****ters bull ****. What it it *sounds like* to you is of no concern to me. As I have stated many times, I am not interested in your whataboutery or whataboutitis, nor in your direct and indirect support for extreme right-wingery, or the fact you apparently believe there are *nice* Nazis or KKK'ers. Sadly, you are the best of the right-wing bunch in here, when it comes to any sort of political or current events discussion. I just said the racists were better behaved in Charlottesville than the BLM/antifa people and that is easily seen, simply by what did not happen. Hundreds of containers of kerosene, lit and none landed in a car window or in a store front. In spite of a lot of talk about assault weapons, not a shot was fired. On the other hand I doubt a single club carried by antifa got home without blood on it. BTW now antifa and BLM are fighting with each other. These are just violent thugs and the real criminals here. I read an article by a Harvard political science professor yesterday that called out BLM/antifa as being the un american force here. As much as we can hate the messenger and even the message the nazis followed the rules, got a permit to march and were not violent until they were attacked by antifa for exercising their 1st amendment rights. The people of Boston did it right the other day. They came out and PEACEFULLY protested the nazis, drowning out their message without resorting to violence. As long as you defend BLM and antifa you are the brown shirt here. |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:28:00 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities, such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which, for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was, the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star. Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk, typewriter, and, of course, spittoon. Here's a picture of The Star building... http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been moved to another facility. You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book, does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a lot higher than yours. If, in fact, Harry had had any of his 'works' published, as he claims, you can bet your ass he'd have copies of them. And if he had copies of them, you can bet your ass he'd have photographed them and shown them to us hundreds of times. He's a liar. Amen. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities, such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which, for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was, the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star. Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk, typewriter, and, of course, spittoon. Here's a picture of The Star building... http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been moved to another facility. You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book, does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a lot higher than yours. The ability to be nosy, to be able to research, and the ability to write are the usual requirements for a new reporter. A journalism degree is neither required nor necessary. The first day on my job at The Star, the day city editor told me to "forget anything you learned at J-school...we'll teach you our way." Fortunately, I had taken only a couple of courses at journalism school, one of which, typography, was of no use at the paper, but useful later in life, so there was little to forget. I took the J-school courses to be closer to my sweetie at the time, a delicious redhead who did graduate from j-school. What was that saying at the engineering school...oh, year... "Yesterday, I couldn't spell engineer, but today I are one." Sounds like a Liberal Arts saying about engineers. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. So, proof you are intellectually lazy. No, Bilious, it isn't "proof" of anything like that. Proof. |
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On 8/22/17 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:37:09 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 11:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:01:20 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for the supposed word smith you profess to be. Real writers write. bull****ters bull ****. What it it *sounds like* to you is of no concern to me. As I have stated many times, I am not interested in your whataboutery or whataboutitis, nor in your direct and indirect support for extreme right-wingery, or the fact you apparently believe there are *nice* Nazis or KKK'ers. Sadly, you are the best of the right-wing bunch in here, when it comes to any sort of political or current events discussion. I just said the racists were better behaved in Charlottesville than the BLM/antifa people and that is easily seen, simply by what did not happen. Yeah, except for the Republican-NAZI-KKK'er who ran over the woman, eh? Several accounts I read stated the righties were not following in a significant way the terms of their permit. In any event, the righties were chanting some pretty horrible ****, and they certainly were trying to see who they could egg on. Oh, and their lovely interviews added to the problem. The righties, despite what Trump claimed, *DID NOT* have a permit for their activities. According to the city: The City agreed to issue the applicant for the “Unite the Right” rally a permit for McIntire Park rather than Emancipation Park. The applicant chose to file a lawsuit to go to Emancipation instead. The judge issued an injunction late Friday ordering the City to allow the event to take place in Emancipation Park. This quick turnaround, and the court order, meant that a formal permit for the event was not issued. The City did comply with the court’s direction. The counter-protestors did have permits, but for a different space. According to a law professor, no permit was needed for them to be in Emancipation Park because it is a public space, a point backed up by the city government. Be that as it may, I find it disgusting that anyone decent would give "shelter" to the NAZI-KKK'ers for any reason. There are limits to free speech, and these Trump supporters go way beyond them. They knew better than to pull their crap in Boston, though...the KKK-NAZIs were hopelessly outnumber and if they started up their usual crap, they might have been slaughtered. I still am enjoying the "outing" of the right-wing pigs in terms of theme being disowned by family members, losing their jobs, and being "afraid." Many decades ago, George Lincoln Rockwell showed up at the Kansas campus for a perfectly legal presentation of his typical college hate talk. He was using a blackboard and chalk in the student union to draw a cartoonish picture of a Jew, complete with a very large nose. One of my proudest college moments was shouting out, "How about Pinocchio, you asshole, was he Jewish?" Well, that broke up the audience, and that particular NAZI pig was not able to continue, because virtually everyone was laughing at him. I'm not sure whether it is legal to call out Donald Trump, as in "Hey, Trump, you're a lying, ignorant asshole...why don't you quit?" That seems okay, maybe, but of course physically threatening him is not. |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:18:20 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort on the writing of posts for this pigpen. So, proof you are intellectually lazy. No, Bilious, it isn't "proof" of anything like that. Proof. Hard to prove an event that did not occur. |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:26:42 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: cIntire Park rather than Emancipation Park. The applicant chose to file a lawsuit to go to Emancipation instead. The judge issued an injunction late Friday ordering the City to allow the event to take place in Emancipation Park. This quick turnaround, and the court order, meant that a formal permit for the event was not issued. The City did comply with the court’s direction. The counter-protestors did have permits, but for a different space. Then they didn't have a permit to be where they were. The court gave the nazis their permit. I know you don't like courts when they disagree with you tho. In fact it was your buddies, the anti war protestors who gave the nazis the right to march. When the draft protestors went to court to overturn SCHENCK v. U.S. it became legal to "cry fire in a crowded theater" and to use language that might present "a clear and present danger" (both phrases coming from Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Schenck decision). As long as the message is wrapped in a political context, you can march and say any "****ing" thing you want ("****" being protected speech too, coming from another decision about war/draft protestors) Rockwell used those decisions to fight for his Skokie march and I assume came up in the Charlottesville case. You really have to be careful what you wish for when you pursue unpopular free speech suits. |
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:07:29 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 8/22/17 3:17 PM, wrote: On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:26:42 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: cIntire Park rather than Emancipation Park. The applicant chose to file a lawsuit to go to Emancipation instead. The judge issued an injunction late Friday ordering the City to allow the event to take place in Emancipation Park. This quick turnaround, and the court order, meant that a formal permit for the event was not issued. The City did comply with the court’s direction. The counter-protestors did have permits, but for a different space. Then they didn't have a permit to be where they were. The court gave the nazis their permit. I know you don't like courts when they disagree with you tho. In fact it was your buddies, the anti war protestors who gave the nazis the right to march. When the draft protestors went to court to overturn SCHENCK v. U.S. it became legal to "cry fire in a crowded theater" and to use language that might present "a clear and present danger" (both phrases coming from Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Schenck decision). As long as the message is wrapped in a political context, you can march and say any "****ing" thing you want ("****" being protected speech too, coming from another decision about war/draft protestors) Rockwell used those decisions to fight for his Skokie march and I assume came up in the Charlottesville case. You really have to be careful what you wish for when you pursue unpopular free speech suits. I'm aware of the legalities for these marches, but I don't have to agree with granting permits to actual hate groups with a long history of violence and whose marchers openly carry firearms, wear masks, and obviously are itching for a fight. Obviously, it is difficult to draw a line, but there shouldn't be any doubt about the Klan or the NAZIs. That applies equally to BLM and antifa. Unfortunately they all have more rights than a sane person would give them. Thanks 60s guys. |
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