journalists

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,126

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 20, 2022

This is the grave of Daniel Schorr. Born in 1916 in The Bronx, Schorr would have been Daniel Tchornemoretz if his parents hadn't simplified their name in English (or had it simplified for them by an Ellis Island immigration agent) when they immigrated to the...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 959

By Erik Loomis

On November 23, 2021

This is the grave of William Lindsay White. Born in 1900 in Emporia, Kansas, White grew up in a famous family. His father was the legendary William Allen White, newspaper.

General

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 882

By Erik Loomis

On July 21, 2021

This is the grave of George Horace Lorimer. Born in Louisville in 1867, Lorimer grew up pretty well off the son of a prominent minister. who had churches in several.

The Journalist Union Movement

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 24, 2021

Journalists unionizing may not be the working-class revolt that those who fantasize about the revolution desire. After all, they aren't working class in a traditional sense. But like graduate students and other professionals, they are at this point perhaps more likely to unionize than working...

Bruce Baugh Unraked Leaf Storm.
Bobbing and weaving · October 11, 2024
Bruce Baugh In his graphic novel A Walk Through Hell, Garth Ennis suggests at one point that Jesus never realized that his father was actually the devil, using him to sow whole new realms of confusion and strife.
Bobbing and weaving · October 11, 2024
Bruce Baugh The Evil Creator, by M. David Litwa, is a fascinating look at the history of Marion and others in the early centuries CE who developed the idea that the chronicled creator was a hopelessly screwed-up...
Bobbing and weaving · October 11, 2024
littlegreen🌻🇺🇦 Weeks of smoky air two years in a row made it real to me. I didn’t see how I and others could live with dangerous levels of particulates. But then it got better. I know it probably won’t last.
A Deeply Underfunded FEMA · October 11, 2024
NHCruikshank Point taken. Read some excerpts from the The Vegetarian, and I'd agree. Maybe just not my cup of tea in terms of fiction reading. Each to his or her own I guess.
Han Kang · October 11, 2024