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QotD: Journalism
Journalism is printing
what someone else doesn't want printed.
Everything else
is public relations.
--George Orwell
what someone else doesn't want printed.
Everything else
is public relations.
--George Orwell
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Ron Paul Book "Bomb"
What I have loved about this campaign is that they ask me to do things I might have done anyway. I just got an email asking me to buy a copy or three of Ron Paul's new book (The Revolution: A Manifesto) and guess what, I will! And I will wait until the day they asked us to buy them. April 30. If you're joining our book buying spree, you might want to buy it early, because everybody will probably run out. Through this internet/email network we have the power to make a statement. And frankly, though not spending your money on businesses that you disapprove of is a useful tool over time, all of us suddenly dropping a dime on something we do approve of probably gets more attention. What's beautiful about all of this is that THERE IS A WE. There are a lot of us who agree with the principle and spirit of Ron Paul's message, and the revolution will carry on.
Now that I've looked at amazon and seen that the hardcover is only $14.28, I might not be able to wait until the 30th. I want a hardcover. Parting this sucker from her money is not so hard.
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Landmark Day: a publisher asked me to write a book
This morning I went for a walk in the forest to calm my mind, and then was back in my small apartment, sitting and breathing and sipping tea, when my cell phone rang. Usually when the cell phone rings it's some crisis at work. But this time it was Bob Sehlinger, an old time Southern boater and publisher too. He explained to me that he was very impressed with my book (Riverese) but that it was too serious and they didn't have a market for it and weren't going to publish it. He was willing to do a much reduced "cute" and "funny" version of it, chock full of Nealy cartoons, and that might happen in the future, but today I only felt lukewarm about that option. My book is academic because I am academic. If you take your favorite 100 definitions (out of 2,500) from the lexicon, and put cute illustrations with it, and change the definitions to be funny instead of factual, it isn't my book at all anymore.
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