Monday June 29th 2009... Daily News front page.
GENERATION GAP LARGEST SINCE 1960's.
Difference: Split involves everything from use of the Internet to definition of old age.
By Hope Yen of Associated Press....
About 75% of adults 18 to 30 went online daily, compared with 40 %of those 65 to 74 and about 16 % for people 75 and older. The age gap widened over cell phones and text messaging.
6/26/09
DEAD MICHEAL JACKSON ON LA TIMES FRONT PAGE ? CANCEL YOUR SUBSRIPTIONS NOW
MICHAEL JACKSON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE LA TIMES?
CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW
by Christine Trzyna C 2009 All Rights Reserved
Last night I bet a Micheal Jackson fanatic one dollar that Liz Taylor would somehow manage to get up front in the funeral of the deceased suspected and assumed (if not convicted) child molester celebrity Micheal Jackson. The guy refused to bet. This morning he gleefully showed me a cover of the LA TIMES that features Jackson's death as a front page story.
Perhaps this is why the LA Times is contemplating its slow death as a big city newspaper.
Soft news instead of hard.
Celebrity instead of the Economy.
Wonder what all the children, whose panties were found strewn around Micheal's secretish Neverland Ranch bedroom, all the children who sucked on "Jesus Juice" wine underage, all the children who were brave enough to admit to parents that they had seen and done things that children ought not, think about this coverage.
If you feel as I do, the only thing left to do is cancel your LA Times Subscription. Sorry LA Times, but using your front cover for Micheal Jackson death coverage is beyond poor taste!
Another guy told me to "be a Christian" and "forgive" Jackson. Let us remind ourselves that it is up to God to judge, forgive, punish or reward. Secondly it is up to his suspected and assumed victims to decide if they want to "forgive." But me, I could never.
A woman told me she felt sorry for his mother. Sorry! I believe LaToya! I believe Joe Jackson, their father, was a monster who beat the children to perform, maybe especially Michael. But the mother, if she was any kind of mother at all, would have taken those children and made a run for it! I get the feeling she hung in there same reason every one else did - for the money!
6/23/09
FAIR - FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING LINK HERE !
A journalism watch dog straining on a leash - kind of like the old cartoon in the LA Weekly, The Angriest Dog in the World...
6/19/09
HUMOR LEXICON WELLERISM
WELLERISM: After the character San Weller in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, combining a common expression with a facetious sequel.
i.e "It all comes back to me now," said the Captain as he spat into the wind."
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
i.e "It all comes back to me now," said the Captain as he spat into the wind."
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
6/14/09
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SEE IT TO SEE IT?
6/12/09
POLISH WRITER DEFENDS PUBLISHING COORESPONDENCE WITH POPE
" She was one of a handful of people by his bedside when he died, and visited him in the hospital when he survived an assassination attempt.
"In the cloistered universe of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II had a woman friend with whom he shared spiritual thoughts in a series of letters that spanned the decades. Now she is defending her recent book of correspondence with the pope against criticism from church officials that she "exaggerated" her friendship with the late pontiff and could delay his beatification.
"Wanda Poltawska, 87, said her book — a collection of her religious meditations and John Paul's letters of spiritual guidance — was harmless to his saint-making process and she dismissed those who sought to minimize her friendship with the Polish-born John Paul.
MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD reporting for Associated Press.
"In the cloistered universe of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II had a woman friend with whom he shared spiritual thoughts in a series of letters that spanned the decades. Now she is defending her recent book of correspondence with the pope against criticism from church officials that she "exaggerated" her friendship with the late pontiff and could delay his beatification.
"Wanda Poltawska, 87, said her book — a collection of her religious meditations and John Paul's letters of spiritual guidance — was harmless to his saint-making process and she dismissed those who sought to minimize her friendship with the Polish-born John Paul.
MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD reporting for Associated Press.
6/3/09
From SEX WITH KINGS by ELEANOR HERMAN
SEX WITH KINGS
500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
C Eleanor Herman 2004
William Morrow - An Imprint of HarperCollings Publishers
Herman used many resources to write this beautifully eloquent book....
Pages 3-4
"The invention of the printing press triggered an explosion of literacy among the nobility. Letter writing became a favorite pastime for courtiers eager to indulge rustic relatives with juicy court gossip... From them we hear of the queens tears, the mistresses temper tantrums, and the kings' insatiable lust...'
" Madame de Maintenon, the final favorite and morganic wife of Louis XIV ( 1638-1715) write more than 90,000 letters in her lifetime. Louis' sister-in-law Elizabeth Charlotte, duchess d' Orleans, wrote 60,000 letters about her life at the court of Versailles over a fifty year period. Madam de Sevigne, who knew Louis XIV's mistresses personally wrote three times a week for twenty-five years to her beloved daughter tucked away in Provence... Some of the personal correspondence of Kings and their mistresses themselves have survived fire, floor, worms, and deliberate destruction and a portion of it deals with the romantic side of life...
"Diaries became the fashion giving eyewitness accounts of royal intrigues...'
" Memoirs became popular...'
500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
C Eleanor Herman 2004
William Morrow - An Imprint of HarperCollings Publishers
Herman used many resources to write this beautifully eloquent book....
Pages 3-4
"The invention of the printing press triggered an explosion of literacy among the nobility. Letter writing became a favorite pastime for courtiers eager to indulge rustic relatives with juicy court gossip... From them we hear of the queens tears, the mistresses temper tantrums, and the kings' insatiable lust...'
" Madame de Maintenon, the final favorite and morganic wife of Louis XIV ( 1638-1715) write more than 90,000 letters in her lifetime. Louis' sister-in-law Elizabeth Charlotte, duchess d' Orleans, wrote 60,000 letters about her life at the court of Versailles over a fifty year period. Madam de Sevigne, who knew Louis XIV's mistresses personally wrote three times a week for twenty-five years to her beloved daughter tucked away in Provence... Some of the personal correspondence of Kings and their mistresses themselves have survived fire, floor, worms, and deliberate destruction and a portion of it deals with the romantic side of life...
"Diaries became the fashion giving eyewitness accounts of royal intrigues...'
" Memoirs became popular...'
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