Ferrari Mailing List: Re: stupidity of the press

[Erik Nielsen (judge4re]

If you want to read the news at better than an 8th grade level,
purchase a subscription to the Economist.  Newspapers are to be used
to line the cat litter bin.

And changing subjects and adding Ferrari content, did anyone watch
Gooding's auction live on the internet yesterday?  They did a
fantastic job and some Ferraris are still bring strong money.  Can't
comment on Bubba's 208 shitbox or my Mondial 8 shitbox, but the end is
not here yet!

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:37 AM,  <Red5hilser [at] aol.com> wrote:
> Hey Rick: Pardon my boldness here, but I feel that I must weigh in here.  (or
> as cLyDe would say, way in here.)
>
> Your brother's professor was right. You write to the level of  the reading
> audience that you're both trying to inform, while being  entertaining.
>
> Your brother just took the wrong course. If he rally wanted to learn  the
> craft of good writing, he should have taken courses in creative writing,  etc,
> not journalism, which in some cases, teaches writing on deadline.
>
> If you work for a newspaper, or write for the TV industry, you write at the
> 8th grade level because that's what our fine educational system is churning
> out  by the millions. Those ignorant (not stupid) slobs are the ones that are
> putting  food on your table and paying your bills, get it?.
>
> Would you expect some Joe Average, when he gets up in the morning to pay  his
> good hard earned money to have (to him) a technical manual that he can't
> read delivered to his front porch? And without his daily dose of Paris,  
> Brit, or
> Lohan? No way, Jose'!
>
> Two of the most important things any newspaper has to offer the  reader are;
> (1) Give the customer a product that is factual, entertaining,  and helpful in
> his/her daily lives, and (2) Give the customer a product in a  timely
> fashion. Believe me, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper is of no value to  a 
> person
> who has it delivered at 5 am one morning and is thrown at 7:05 the  next, 35
> minutes after he left for work.
>
> No readership means no advertising, which means no newspaper. None of this
> 'Build it and they will come' bullshit. It's just that simple.
>
> The second part is where I came in. I used my J-School experience, plus my
> years of  to work with the editors and reporters to develop smooth page  flow
> programs through the pre-press production areas, to insure on-time press
> starts for several large metro newspapers. You can't expect on-time press 
> starts
> when half the pages are released to press 30 minutes before roll deadline. The
> editors thought so. <g>
>
> In fact, I had an editor that I worked with in Tucson, tell me that when he
> went to the L.A, Times, and they instituted a page flow program very similar
> to  mine, it was a snap for him because of his prior experience in Tucson.
> Nowadays,  that and $5 will get me a Mocha Java at Starbucks. <g>
>
> It's all for naught anyway. A friend just bought a voice recognition  program
> for his computer. No need to write anymore. Soon writing, both good and
> poor, will go the way of the Betamax, and printed-on- newsprint newspapers.  
> The
> shame of it all.
>
> I remember when the newspaper racket was FUN! The clatter of dozens of
> typewriters, the noise of the teletype machines, the bottle in the bottom desk
> drawer, the roar of the presses, and the one time that I actually got to yell
> "STOP THE PRESSES!" at the L.A. Herald-Examiner. What a thrill.
>
> Yer pal, (looking for somewhere high to hang this rope) Bubba, stuck  in
> Bismarck Arkansas
>
>
> In a message dated 1/18/2009 12:05:51 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> misc [at] 308systems.com writes:
>
> Hey, 8th  grade is rocket science.  In my earlier life, we wrote  technical
> reports and ran them through a grammar check program set at the  3rd grade
> level....
>
> Mark Lueker
> 308 SYSTEMS  Inc.
> 970-282-7006
> www.308systems.com
>
> -----Original  Message-----
> From: Rick Lindsay [mailto:rolindsay [at] yahoo.com]
> Sent:  Friday, January 16, 2009 3:16 PM
> To: Mark
> Cc: The  FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] stupidity of the press
>
>
> Clyde  wrote,
>
>> I am watching the live news conf
>> These reporters  are asking stupid questions
>
> Because they ARE stupid!  My brother  decided to get a second degree in
> journalism because he likes to  write.  He quit the program because he was
> required to write at the  8th grade level.  Nothing more elegant or in depth
> was  permitted.  The sad thing is, they wouldn't write that way if it  wasn't
> the highest level that the majority could understand!!!
>
> I  didn't see the conference but I'm sure the reporters were asking  ignorant,
> leading and inflammatory questions.  They won't be happy  until they can
> persecute someone.  Read: Make the  news.
>
> rick
>
>
>
>> Subject: [Ferrari] stupidity of the  press
>>
>> Writers for the Associated Press penned,
>>  "Investigators brought in a giant crane and a barge
>> Friday to help  pull a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson
>> River, and survivors among  the 155 people aboard recounted
>> tales of horror and hailed the pilot  as a hero who delivered
>> them from certain death."  And while I  agree with the
>> sentiment, I wrestle with the logic.  How can one  be saved
>> from CERTAIN death? Not to mention the world's  longest
>> run-on sentence.
>>
>> rick
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