Making Content the Old Fashioned Way
November 4, 2009
When I write a crappy story, Tess bites my ankle. The rest of the goslings don’t care. Programmers are not entranced by my prose. I found it interesting that the mavens of real journalism, the custodians of news, resorted to a fist fight, if the story in the Washingtonian is accurate. Navigate to “Fists Fly after Post Editor Tells Writer, “It’s the Second Worst Story I Have Seen in Style in 43 Years”. The passage I liked was:
Veteran Style writers said they knew Allen [the attacking editor] wasn’t happy. He had come up in Style’s heady days, when writers could wax for a hundred inches on the wonder of plastic lawn furniture or the true meaning of the Vietnam War Memorial. No more. Working part time on contract, Allen seethed over the lost art of long-form journalism.
The writer and the editor had a fist fight. Yep, the lost art. I wonder if the metadata for the news story will include such terms as fight, culture, custodian, intellectual, and maturity?
Stephen Arnold, November 4, 2009
I want to disclose to the Peace Corps. that I was not paid to write this short article.
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