Comments on: US Today’s Citizen Journalists Write Entire Paper

By: magnetite

magnetite — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:14:26 +0000

[boring but true update]

It’s arrived! Hooray!
The shoe setting only washes trainers though. I hoped it would revitalise and shine my old brogues. Boo!

[also]
F*ck me, I went on some didn’t I?
[also]
No wonder British journalism is in a state. Our only awards kicked off in the 70’s and look frankly sh*t anyway. Where’s our Pulitzer?
[also]
I have to go and buy a new standpipe because I smashed the last one wrestling the washer out. Ah well..
[also]
Anorak’s Greatest Wednesday.

[My mood today: playful]

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:20:34 +0000

This guns for hire- Springsteen

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg

Really to bed now…

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:20:32 +0000

A Good Washer.(dryer that is)

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:19:50 +0000

A Good Washer.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:18:46 +0000

magnetite, a washing machine with a shoe washing programm, now that’s smart
sleep well, enjoyed reading your posts.

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:17:41 +0000

All Good Words!

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:15:04 +0000

I leave you all to do what you do best…unravel the weasel words of the press and shine light in the dark corners where it’s needed. My mood wasn’t great tonight, but you allowed me my spouting with grace - all of you. I deal in the inconsequential for the most part, and envy your gravitas and vision sometimes. I’ve got a new washer/dryer coming tomorrow (whee! it has a shoe-washing programme, how about that?) so I’ve got to go and wrestle the old one out of its hole in preparation and put it out for the cleansing dept. to pick up. It’s about time I flexed muscles I can actually use effectively, the grey one in my noggin is atrophied somewhat.

Thanks for putting up with my sh*t - and thank you all for being you. I’ll try to be funny when I next come back, I promise. At the very least, I’ll try and keep my big trap shut.

[A man, a plan, a canal. Palinama! Nope, still doesn't work]

By: sam

sam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:14:38 +0000

spelled it wrong chenier, osyth. never heard of her myself either. good night

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:14:17 +0000

Or William de Worde.

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:11:58 +0000

St Oysnth?

I’m glad to hear it; clearly I should raise a glass in the direction of him/her as I say goodnight.

Take care, everyone…

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:10:21 +0000

magnetite Says:

October 7th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
We may yet return to the one-man, one -printing press operations often seen in westerns being intimidated by the mustachioed cattle baron, chenier - if things go t*ts-up. Twasn’t feeble though. I’m slow on the uptake in general, and escpecially tonight.

Saul, I lament that too. Technology and its affect on the attention span of the masses has worn real journalism down to a nub. I hope there is still life in it. Perhaps we would find out if there is when we need the real reporters. Sadly it may be after the event, and we’ll need town criers again to tell their stories. I’m up for the post of ‘man with still in the woods’ come the fall of civvylisation. Probably village idiot too - 70% proof illegal hooch does that to a body.
—————–
Jack Elam for Editor of the Dodge City Times.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:06:42 +0000

it isn’t, i just looked, it’s st oysnth.

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:03:34 +0000

magnetite Says:

October 7th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Nice one Saul I’ve been trying to work Palin’s name into a palindrome for weeks now, but she’s no Panama canal.
————–
Lanac amanap?

You are right.

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:38 +0000

B*gger!

I hadn’t realised it was St Crispin’s Day…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:59:36 +0000

sam, yes! Shame they need electricity, coimputers and phone lines though.

chenier, here’s hoping…

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:59:02 +0000

To para phrase…….. we few,we happy few, we band of posters.

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:57:00 +0000

Nice one Saul I’ve been trying to work Palin’s name into a palindrome for weeks now, but she’s no Panama canal.

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:56:40 +0000

I had assumed that the creeping tabloidisation of reporting that we saw par excellence in the McCann case, where the broadsheets showed little or no better standards than the gutter press, was irreversible.

I suppose it is possible that we will see some worthwhile journalism on the financial meltdown…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:55:12 +0000

oops, misunderstood you there, sam. Empowerment. I’m all for it, while we are still capable. The US constitution seems merely a piece of paper behind glass now. Our own politicos do their best to keep us hooded like a kestrel that they never wish to soar. We can do it, all of us, if we must. I just hope that we don’t have to. The world shouldn’t have had to come to such a pass that it requires the efforts of the populace to enlighten one another about troubles that race toward us. We’re a kick in the behind off a peasant’s revolt then - but just whom can we revolt against?

By: sam

sam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:53:57 +0000

perhaps so magetite. the one man one printing thing, that’s similar to blogs if not the same thing really.