Comments for http://easyandelegantlife.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:09:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Three Questions by TheElegantologist http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/08/14/three-questions/#comment-2167 TheElegantologist Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:17:49 +0000 http://easyandelegantlife.com/?p=1147#comment-2167 Hello Rob, thanks for the words of encouragement. I often feel that way about books myself. My resolution is to make more time for reading. "A Dance" will definitely require it! I think I'm just about in the right state of mind to begin. Hello Rob, thanks for the words of encouragement. I often feel that way about books myself. My resolution is to make more time for reading. “A Dance” will definitely require it! I think I’m just about in the right state of mind to begin.

]]> Comment on Extra, Extra! by LINDA BRAZILL http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/08/20/extra-extra/#comment-2166 LINDA BRAZILL Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:17:15 +0000 http://easyandelegantlife.com/?p=1178#comment-2166 I grew up reading an afternoon newspaper. One of my fondest memories as a teenager is reading the paper with my dad and discussing the news over the dinner table with my parents and sisters. I loved the serendipity of never knowing what I'd find when I opened a daily paper. For the last 30 years I've been living in a town with two competing daily newspapers and two college dailies and numerous weeklies. Life without newspapers is no kind of life, as far as most of my friends and I are concerned. But I've just been downsized out of my newspaper job this spring (along with 6,000 other folks nationwide) I love blogs and the Web but there is no accountability the way there is in the newspaper industry. We are no longer the same town without two dailies. In the long run, what's happening in the newspaper industry is a crisis for democracy in this country. I grew up reading an afternoon newspaper. One of my fondest memories as a teenager is reading the paper with my dad and discussing the news over the dinner table with my parents and sisters. I loved the serendipity of never knowing what I’d find when I opened a daily paper.

For the last 30 years I’ve been living in a town with two competing daily newspapers and two college dailies and numerous weeklies. Life without newspapers is no kind of life, as far as most of my friends and I are concerned. But I’ve just been downsized out of my newspaper job this spring (along with 6,000 other folks nationwide)

I love blogs and the Web but there is no accountability the way there is in the newspaper industry. We are no longer the same town without two dailies. In the long run, what’s happening in the newspaper industry is a crisis for democracy in this country.

]]> Comment on Extra, Extra! by TheElegantologist http://easyandelegantlife.com/2008/08/20/extra-extra/#comment-2165 TheElegantologist Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:49 +0000 http://easyandelegantlife.com/?p=1178#comment-2165 Athenaeus, thanks. I don't want to get too political, but having worked for the Federal Government during the waning days of The Cold War, the situation in Georgia looks all too familiar to me. Energy is the new currency of a new Cold War. Two descendants of reporters among you! Wow! How marvelous and how unusual in my experience. I have really only known one and am fascinated by how well-informed he is on a range of subjects. Truly a remarkable, and underpaid, profession. You have all convinced me to renew my subscription to our local paper -- although the days of straight reporting seem behind us, it is good to know what is going on around me. For national and international news I'm still scanning the online headlines. In France, my weekly International Herald-Tribune and Montecristo #4 made for an enjoyable and very civilised Friday. Athenaeus, thanks. I don’t want to get too political, but having worked for the Federal Government during the waning days of The Cold War, the situation in Georgia looks all too familiar to me. Energy is the new currency of a new Cold War.

Two descendants of reporters among you! Wow! How marvelous and how unusual in my experience. I have really only known one and am fascinated by how well-informed he is on a range of subjects. Truly a remarkable, and underpaid, profession.

You have all convinced me to renew my subscription to our local paper — although the days of straight reporting seem behind us, it is good to know what is going on around me. For national and international news I’m still scanning the online headlines. In France, my weekly International Herald-Tribune and Montecristo #4 made for an enjoyable and very civilised Friday.

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