Name (required):

  Expression ^{(Optional mood/title along with your name) Examples: (happy, sad, The Joyful, etc.) help)}

  E-mail address (optional):

* Type your message here:
>>33? How about 13-1/2? Read this drivel and tell me >>that a 30 something year old journalist wrote it: >>"That said, one can understand how the Severe Weather >", either,", haha that's my favorite part! With >writing like that, the Trib Kiddies have taken bad >writing to new depths. > >>Team might not have known what to make of the >>mysterious green blob quickly approaching the Green >>Zone. And the scores of fender benders during the >>morning commute should come as no surprise, either, >>considering that traffic reporters failed to warn >>suicide car bombers to take it easy out there. >>Bridges and overpasses always freeze first, you know. >>Even in the desert." >>The whole, um, story: >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/n >e >>ws/tribpm/s_547571.html">http://www.pittsburghlive.com >/ >>x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_547571.html</a> >> >>>I can't think of a pm staffer who's even pushing 33. >>> >>>>The Trib PM is the result of an attempt at being >>>>"edgy" by Trib Kiddies who are pushing 40 and >beyond. >>>>The problem with "edgy", which is connotative of >>>>having a sharp or biting edge and wit, is that >>concept >>>>is in a state of constant change and that makes it >>>>always elusive and then you must know, who at any >>>>given time, is defining what edgy is because that >>>>would be your target audience. >>>>A fine example is the myth of the "Sixties". In my >>>>estimation the defining depth of that label lasted >>for >>>>7 or 8 years; 1963 brought the Beatles and in 1970 >or >>>>71, Kent State and the Pentagon papers. The end. >>Yeah, >>>>you might hear these things discussed occasionally, >>>>but Woodstock, Peter, Paul & Mary, Led Zeppelin, the >>>>Grateful Dead, the Beatles and Stones, Carnaby >>Street, >>>>psychedelia, Martin Luther King, the Haight-Ashbury >>>>and Don and Deanna On Bleecker Street (1982-85 -wow, >>>>that lasted a long time) all have one thing in >>common, >>>>their time is past. >>>>And the Trib Kiddies time is also past. The "edgy" >>>>thing is self defeating. What are you going to do to >>>>fix it? Hire new Trib Kiddies who are 20 years old >or >>>>younger which is what this edgy thing is all about. >>>>First you'll have to use human resources to >>distiguish >>>>the cool kids from the nerds because only nerds are >>>>cool now but that too is changing, and old Walt from >>>>HR ain't never going gonna be up with that. >>>>It's a losing proposition. Good journalism is not. >>Put >>>>out some good journalism, paper or online, tailored >>>>toward this region and you will have all the >edginess >>>>you need. >>>>Even Don and Deanna read the NY Times (while >lunching >>>>on love burgers). >>>> >>>>>>The only advantage the Trib p.m. has over the PG >is >>>>>>that people enjoy reading Trib p.m. That's all. >>>>> >>>>>Sure. >>>>>All what? 15 people who read the Trib PM?

Note: This forum is moderated -- new posts are not visible until approved.

Notice: Copies of your message may remain on this and other systems on internet. Please be respectful.