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(12/04/12 5:00am)
Last week, I traded some emails with Ashley Robertson, The Cavalier Daily’s sports editor. I had written a critique of a pair of sports section columns that discussed Mike London’s performance as the University’s football coach (“Playing fair,” Nov. 27). Robertson’s column (“I believe in Coach London,” Nov. 24), while pointing out what she sees as the coach’s shortcomings, was, as the headline suggests, a defense of London. A column by the Sports senior associate editor Fritz Metzinger (“An avoidable collapse,” Nov. 26) was not so supportive. My complaint was this: “The man at their collective focal point wasn’t there. There was no quote from London about late game time management or any other problem the writers found with this season’s football team.”
(11/27/12 3:29am)
Red Smith, one of the greatest sports writers of all time, was among those who called the sports section the toy department of the newspaper business — a harmless diversion tucked behind stories about crime and politics and serious issues. But in Smith’s day — or for many of his days — professional athletes were often paid little enough that they took blue collar jobs in the off-season to help pay their mortgages or buy their children’s shoes. Now, of course, it’s common for an athlete to make more than many small businesses. Once upon a time, Babe Ruth had to justify his making $5,000 more than the president of the United States. (“I had a better year than he did,” the Bambino said.) Last season, Alex Rodriguez’s compensation eclipsed the president’s before A-Rod was three games into the season.
(10/22/12 3:27am)
Lucrative as being The Cavalier Daily’s ombudsman is, this is not my only job.
(10/01/12 4:56am)
Let me start by saying something nice. Denise Taylor’s column about the media (“Let me hear both sides,” Sept. 25) was a nice piece of work. It took an easy target — “a survey conducted by Gallup found that 60 percent of Americans have little or no trust in the media’s capacity to report news accurately, fairly and objectively” — but didn’t take the easy, thoughtless route. She talked about the changes in the news business since Uncle Walter told us the way it was, but Taylor may have given an older generation too much credit when she wrote, “Americans are a lot less willing to hear the truth than they were 40 years ago.”
(09/24/12 3:30am)
“All good writing,” Hemingway is supposed to have said, “is rewriting.” Flaubert is supposed to have said that, too. And E.B. White. Whoever said it first, the aphorism has been repeated by writing teachers and how-to-write books more times than a sane person would attempt to count. It is true, of course. No one turns out golden prose on the first go-round. According to legend – and to Jack Kerouac – Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks of typing on a 120-foot long scroll of teletype paper. Kerouac produced that scroll in three weeks, but he had been working on the book for years before and revised it for years after, so even the three-week burst was a rewriting of sorts. Reporters on deadline do not have much time to re-write, so it is understandable that newspaper prose is not all it could be. Still, some recent stories could have used another pass or two.
(09/17/12 3:04am)
“In our age,” George Orwell wrote, “there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.” Nothing has happened in the 66 years since “Politics and the English Language” was published to diminish the truth in Orwell’s words. Given the current state of discourse, perhaps paranoia and cynicism should join Orwell’s list. People seem too inclined to believe negative information — not the positive; that would make them seem naïve — and too ready to believe that everyone, particularly everyone in politics and the media, is working their own angles, completely indifferent to duty.
(09/10/12 5:32am)
Two contradictory impulses of the 24-hour news cycle have done some bad things to the news business. Or maybe they just amplified bad traits that were already there. In the rush to be the first to report breaking news, things that are simply wrong get published and posted and broadcast. When Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died recently, one network identified the astronaut on its website as Neil Young.
(09/03/12 12:52am)
First, I would like to describe my job, then I’d like to do it. Those of you familiar with the first part, feel free to jump ahead, just past that list near the end of the column.
(11/07/05 5:00am)
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. Schools from the University of Hawaii to Columbia University have seen controversy flair up over cartoons deemed racist over the last few years. This was such a common theme that when I was managing editor of NYU's student paper, the editor and I knew specifically to look out for this sort of problem.
(03/29/05 5:00am)
When I accepted this job last summer, then-Editor-in-Chief Chris Wilson told me I was free to tackle almost any subject related to The Cavalier Daily. The only things he asked me not to write about were spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes.
(01/21/02 5:00am)
THE BEGINNING of a semester is a good time to tie up some loose ends from last year, and most of the loose ends involve reader e-mails that I could not work into last semester