Online Meanderings '99

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Except as noted, these commentaries were posted at the daily online news site, The American Reporter. Thanks to Editor Joe Shea, my weekly opinions and observations can be found at that site.
A new column appears each week."

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December 1999 postings:

• The death of The Lone Ranger
  Bob and Jack: A mini-memoir
  History, the new, and our quest for salvation
  A Shakespeare, Bible and Gilligan lunch
  Christmas 'season' -- A matter of editorial style

November 1999 postings:

• How to be a desirable columnist
  Promise without deliverance in religion news
  When editors collide (with publishers and CEO's)
  The 'weak-minded' pen letters to Ventura

October 1999 postings:

• Obituary for a symbol of freedom
  From Valdez to Challenger, the hidden safety flaw was sleep
  The disappearing homer: In the parlance of the game, 'we wuz robbed!'
  Nameless statistics: From Bangladesh to bedeviling 'tweens
  Atlantic's 'current' shifts from Boston to Washington

September 1999 postings:

• The folly of 'reading too much'
  For love of the whole game
  In dumbing down, newspapers prove dumbest of all
  Something to sneeze at
  My deadline was strangely warmed

August 1999 postings:

• Words of awe about an eclipse
  We lose with news you can use
  Column previously published in Pacific Stars and Stripes, April 4, 1994.
  A word or two about pictures
  Column previously published in Pacific Stars and Stripes, March 20, 1994.

July 1999 postings:

• A summer memoir: Stickball in the city
  Column previously published in Pacific Stars and Stripes, February 27, 1994.
  How to learn from poets without reading them
  In a profit-conscious journalism, where are the prophets?
  Can we survive in a kick-butt, smart-mouth society?

June 1999 postings:

• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive
  American Reporter web postings were temporarily suspended in June.
  Commentary: For newspapers off the Internet, the veil is rent

May 1999 postings:

• Editors were meant to hang around words
  Jean Piaget and our human penchant for lists
  Light in the attic first shone in the Pacific
  I take my columns with Half and Half

April 1999 postings:

• Poetry goes beyond a national declaration
  April still 'The Cruellest Month'
  Ernie Pyle: The stuff of footnotes, not headlines, in war
  Making sense of the first Internet war
  Reflection on holy week, Passover and air strikes

March 1999 postings:

• Observations amid a bombing on a modest peace effort
  A morning's downs and ups
  Reversing the dumbing down of news
  A journalist learns from singing in the choir

February 1999 postings:

• All news is local news (unpublished)
  Older events more likely as 'News of the Century'
  Magazines: Uncovering the Christian mind
  No victory to be had in humiliating the president

January 1999 postings:

• Journalism speaks to itself with a forked tongue
  Also appeared in "Shop Talk at Thirty" of the February 6, 1999 edition of Editor & Publisher, under the headline, "Too devout, or not devout enough, to cover religion"
  Beyond impeachment: Elections 2000
  A few choice words from the Congressman's boss
  Magazines: Small stuff can carry a big wallop
  Media-ethics group gets blessing from AEJMC executive council
  (Special report to free!)

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