The Thief
Le Voleur is French for the Thief. In 1828, during the birth and rise of the newspaper, Emile de Girardin had a novel idea on how to use the newest writing technology, the printing press. He and a friend decided to start a periodical, but since they lacked capital, the weekly was entitled Le Voleur (The Thief) and it reprinted the best articles that had appeared elsewhere during the week, saving editorial costs. (from ''The History and Power of Writing'')
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Curveball the Goofball
NY Times Op-Ed: Maureen Dowd:: "I had an editor once whose wife was in the Audubon Society. There were a lot of articles about birds in that newspaper.
I had an editor once who loved fishing. There were a lot of articles about fish in that newspaper.
Organizations organically respond to please the boss. Bosses naturally surround themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear.
When King Lear's favorite daughter spoke frankly to him, and refused to fawn like her sisters, she was instantly banished. Insincerity pays.
It is absurd to have yet another investigation into the chuckleheaded assessments on Saddam's phantom W.M.D. that intentionally skirts how the $40 billion-a-year intelligence was molded and manufactured to fit the ideological schemes of those running the White House and Pentagon"
Written at 9:01 PM by Darcy.
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