On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:40:50 -0400, "Felice Friese"
<friese@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>"blake murphy" <blakepm@verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:05bpb3pg1psvkm9kse089e75h199jckf2s@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:26:31 -0400, "Felice Friese"
>> <friese@comcast.net> wrote:
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><snippity>
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>>>I am a retired newspaper editor and never once corrected a reporter's
>>>grammar within anyone else's hearing. I spoke to them privately or posted
>>>a
>>>general note (usually light in tone) on the newsroom bulletin board.
>>
>> felice, i'm impressed. who did you edit for?
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
>Sounds more impressive than it was, Blake! They were weekly/daily papers in
>Westchester County, N.Y., one of which I owned (the one that was a
>journalistic success and a financial disaster). In my dreams, of course, I
>worked for the New York Times.
>
>Felice
>
Hey, I worked for the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil back in the day.
I wanted to be Jimmy Olsen, but mostly I was a nerd in the newspaper's
morgue looking for "30-years-ago-today" stories until I had to cover a
big home invader/double murder story because everybody else had gone
home for the evening. Cops were throwing up in the front yard, and I
turned away an offer for a story from a young woman whom I believed
was only looking for attention, but who eventually was a witness for
the (successful) prosecution.

My news nose is that bad.

I took up painting soon afterwards.
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