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Lasciare da parte la domanda della manipolazione liberale blatant di notizie e di polarizzazione del giornale, Tempi de Los Angeles realmente deve considerare il rehiring tutti i correttori di bozze e copyeditors che ha congedato per risparmiare i soldi.
Qui è un setnece che leggo oggi nella sezione di affari: “Chrysler sta chiudendo la pianta perché le vendite delle versioni dell'non-ibrido del SUVs stanno vendendo male.„
Le vendite… stanno vendendo male? Un copyeditor potrebbe cambiare facilmente quello “a muoversi lentamente„ per rimuovere la sovrabbondanza ed il idiocy della costruzione “vendite… che vendono male.„
Video di scienza cristiana, uno dei giornali più equilibrati nel paese, annunciato oggi che stava cessando la relativa pubblicazione quotidiana e stava commutando ad una Fotoricettore-prima politica mentre ancora pubblicava un'edizione settimanale della stampa.
Molti osservatori vedono il movimento come harbinger del futuro per la maggior parte se non tutto giornali quotidiani, che hanno perso il reddito dell'annuncio al Internet e stanno costringendi a downsize e funzionamenti di riduzione.
“Giudicando dai numeri di diminuzione del reddito e di circolazione, sembra come ( Video) non ha avuto un'opzione qui, “detto a Michael Hanley, un professore di aiuto di giornalismo alla sfera l'università di Stato.
Legga la storia completa.
Vediamo. AIG (American International Group) non poteva riguardare l'assicurazione che ha pubblicato sulle sicurezze di ipoteca e su altri strumenti finanziari speculativi, così Stati Uniti governo (colto: i contribuenti) devono pony su $90 così l'azienda potremmo depositare i relativi reclami di assicurazione e rimanere in atto.
Abbiamo probabilmente tutti sentiti parlare delle ritirate sontuose AIG tenute dopo il bailout. Ora, oggi ho letto questo titolo in Tempi de Los Angeles: “AIG per congelare una certa paga del exec.„
Come circa rendere loro la paga indietro le indennità hanno ottenuto per tutto il che uncoverable (colto: ) assicurazione che bogus hanno venduto?
Though if I were to agree with an economist most times and overall, it would be Milton Friedman, on the advice of Mad Money host Jim Cramer, I just read The Great Crash 1929 by economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
I’m not one to read books about the dismal science in general, but Cramer’s advice definitely was timely, so after reading it, I too am recommending Galbraith’s book unhesitatingly. It’s a great read and highly enlightening.
Great Crash is written in a common-sense, common-person’s style that makes it a quick, engaging read. (I finished it off in about three hours or less.) However, you may want to look up the definitions of these words before reading it: usufruct, eupeptic and parthenogenesis. Otherwise, you’ll encounter clear, concise, simple writing.
I must confess that, after reading Great Crash, I now have a more liberal leaning on governmental intervention in the economy, as Galbraith makes it clear that easy steps could’ve been taken to ameliorate and end the Great Depression possibly while it was in its early stages. (Hint: Don’t balance the budget and keep money flowing.)
I found this passage on the next-to-last page of the book most illuminating for our current crisis:
"…it would be unwise to expose the economy to the shock of another major speculative collapse. Some the new reinforcements might buckle. Fissures might appear at other new and perhaps unexpected places. Even the quick withdrawal from the economy of the spending that comes from stock market gains might be damaging."
Might?
Editor’s Note: Beaufort Books is the same firm that published O.J. Simpson’s "If" book, and The Jewel of Medina has been largely panned as featuring little more than second-class romance novel writing.
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Reprinted courtesy of STRATEGIC FORECASTING
“The Jewel of Medina,” a controversial work of historical fiction by American author Sherry Jones, was supposed to have gone on sale Oct. 15 in the United Kingdom. A series of events, however, have delayed its British release indefinitely. The book, which went on sale in the United States on Oct. 6, describes the life of Aisha, the young girl who became the Prophet Mohammed’s third — and according to many sources, favorite — wife
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Some Muslims have labeled the book blasphemous and have branded the author an enemy of Islam. An associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas at Austin said Muslims would find the book very offensive and, in an August interview in The Wall Street Journal, likened it to soft-core pornography.
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Maybe I should’ve used scene instead of seen in keeping with the misspelling and misusage of two-day (I can only figure they meant today, right?).
Let’s see. When I got my master’s degree in journalism, the standard was to write to a seventh-grade reader. Unfortunately, some journalists are now writing to impress their former professors, or themselves, in some kind of college esteem deficit syndrome.
Case in point: Los Angeles Times film critic Carina Chocano. Her reviews read like a college paper (I’ve been a university instructor since 1995) out to impress with convoluted sentences and words to impress academics and turn off the reader.
Just tell me if the movie is any good or not. I don’t care about your college hang-ups, Carina.
Take this example: Today, she wrote what was called "An Appreciation" for Paul Newman, who just died. Check this sentence:
"What is ‘Cool Hand Luke’ if not a polyamorous bromance writ large?"
Bromance is not a word to be found in the dictionary, so it’s either a typo or some kind of Hollyweird lingo that needs a parenthetical explanation. Polyamarous, meaning sleeping with many, is fine, but seventh graders won’t understand it, though one’s former profeessors might be impressed.
In short, remember your audience, Carina, and quit trying to impress those who don’t count (though you may be thinking it impresses the people who pay your bills, but I hope not–are they sensible?).
Is there any wonder the Los Angeles Times and all newspapers are in trouble.
Remember your audience. Write to communicate, not to impress.
The first people to go at newspapers when shrinkage occurs (which is quite frequent these days) are the proofreaders and copyeditors, those who are charged with making sure that correct English appears in print.
Though the Los Angeles Times is usually pretty good on the correctness front, I came across a sentence Saturday (Sept. 20) that misused a form of the verb to sink, to wit: "Meanwhile, shares of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs sunk as investors bet they would collapse…."
I still remember from probably the third grade memorizing the base forms of this verb as "sink, sank, sunk," so without a modifying verb–and using just the simple past tense–the authors of this article could not have used sunk, though they did.
I chalk this one up to a) sloppiness and b) stupidity rather than hiring and firing policies, which, sadly, is worse than the latter.
No one called me out for saying that Jack Kerouac was not a beatnik (capital b?), which he really wasn’t since he spent most of his 47 years living with a) his aunt, b) his mother and c) his briefly wed wives. He did, however, hang out with people who could be called beatniks (B? again), but mostly he was a drunk who eventually died from wounds inflicted in a barroom beating that he endured.
Now, I don’t have the time or space to go into an exegesis of On the Road, which is at any rate a largely rambling and disconnected piece of literature (nor would I consider myself qualified to do so), but from my reading of the manuscript in the Penguin Classic edition, one passage seems to have answered Kerouac’s journeylong quest for God and truth, though it’s just buried on page 173 when he passes a fish-’n'-chips joint and fraeks out the female owner:
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As I prepare for my upcoming Route 66 catharsis, or journey to discover my roots (something I should’ve done 40 years ago, not now), I’ve been reading all the "road" books I can find, including On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
One of the great ironies of American literature–and history–is that Kerouac is regarded as the progenitor of the Beatniks, which is about as far from the truth as possible.
Kerouac was a Catholic who dabbled in Buddhism and throughout it all was a William F. Buckley type of political conservative. He wore no beard and no jeans but did smoke tea, as he called marijuana–and of course, drank a lot.
When he referred to the Beat Generation, he described its inhabitants as being "beat up and beat down"–in other words, a generation that had been pushed under and asunder and dealt severe blows, socially, psychologically and financially. He even equated being "beat" with "Beatific." In other words, when you’ve been "beat up and beat down" enough, you become angelic. You’ve aspired to one of life’s highest realms by virtue of your suffering.
Now, this is all a far cry from the Beatniks and Hippies and the reckless doping and abandonment with whom and with which he’s been mistakenly identified.
Stay tuned for more on Kerouac–and a bit after that, details on my own journey on the road.
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