A site to help make English grammar more understandable without dumbing down either its significance or its usage.
Well, enough for my footballese. What I’m getting at is a new twist at the Los Angeles Times after a couple of years of being "in the tank" for Barack Obama. (Go to Google and type in "in the tank," and it will fill in "for Obama" and show you 843,000 results, so the Times is [...]
France has unveiled a plan to give free newspaper subscriptions to teens when they turn 18, a move to help the ailing publishing industry in that country. The nation is also ponying up some $90 million to help subsidize the delivery of publications, a more than tenfold increase from the previous year. France is also [...]
The incoming Obama administration is already paying back its union allies with a host of pro-labor laws and a stimulus package that, in its spending aspect, benefits only unions, so why not bail out its propaganda mouthpiece, the New York Times? The venerable publication is hugely in debt, and when its $400-million line of credit [...]
I remember when I was studying journalism at the University of Southern California, the editors of the Los Angeles Times would take turns coming over as guest lecturers. The foreign bureau editor, whose name slips me, voiced supreme pride that his newspaper was vigorously staffing every major capital in the world with its own people. [...]
The Bubble Economy (i.e., Dot Com, Housing, Oil) has found a new home–in the English language. A group called the Global Language Monitor is busily adding words to the English tongue at a rapid pace, something like one new word every 98 minutes. Now, if you think about it, if you’re adding one new word [...]
In the photo above, Nazis exult over a pile of burning books on May 10, 1933, which this Web article explains more fully. Now, with the advent of the CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act), which takes effect this Feb. 10, many are worried that there will be massive book burnings in America. Reason? The CPSIA [...]
A local rag out where I live (I guess I shouldn’t call it a rag since the paper does try to be somewhat fair) ran an interesting editorial today about best-selling author Neil David Walsch, who just got caught plagiarizing–unintentionally, of course. (The same edition also carried a note about how "an unspecified number" of [...]
"Great Caesar’s Ghost" Daily Planet editor Perry White was heard to exclaim from the grave. Journalism as we know it ceased to exist as of Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The end came as the New York Times, that bastion of all things journalistic (and they would say of all things just and politically correct), ran a four-color advertisement [...]