[PRCo] Re: The Tartan

[John Swindler]

In most instances:


good news = no news

no news = bad news

bad news = good news


(can't remember where this is plagiarized from)





>From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: The Tartan
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:32:46 -0500
>
>But everyone has his own talent.  Swindler has a great talent
>analyzing the buffoons in the government arena.
>
>And I wish I could play a musical instrument.   I would love to be
>able to play piano or organ but when you have someone in the
>immediate family who plays at Lincoln Center and the Houston Symphony
>etc., etc., and who runs a music school, it's a little intimidating
>to go to them and take basic lessons.  I'll just never do it.
>Instead I'll simply enjoy sitting in St. Martin's in the Field in
>London and listening to the music.
>
>You may recall the late Harre Demoro.    His business was writing.
>He wrote for the Oakland Tribune and later for the San Francisco
>Chronicle.  Some considered Harre the undying optimist when it came
>to promoting BART.   He simply felt it didn't do any good to keep
>hammering on BART's mistakes ... afterall, here was one of the first
>new transit systems in the U. S. A. and Harre was proud that he lived
>in the city that was part of it.    But back to Harre's job.  People
>in that field don't make a whole lot of money.  A planner for PennDOT
>in Harrisburg would make more than a writer for a major newspaper.
>He needed to moonlight in order to keep body and soul together in the
>second highest cost region of the United States.  He wrote for a lot
>of other magazines on the side just to make a buck.   He also wrote
>books on the side.  I remember watching him disappear into his
>basement den and park himself behind the typewriter after dinner.
>Thirty minutes later he came out with an envelope addressed to
>Metropolitan magazine.  A complete article ... out of the brain, to
>the muscles, onto the keys, onto paper, proofed, a cover letter
>written, in the envelope, stamps on it, and ready to drop in a mail
>box in 30 minutes.    Amazing talent.  And then he and I went out
>somewhere.  Of course he had to be able to do that in order to write
>on daily deadlines for one of the nation's major newspapers.
>
>I never came close.   The best I ever did was a one column piece for
>Trains magazine on the GG-1 that Strasburg Rail Road rebuilt  ...
>that took me an hour to bash out plus the time to process the film
>and make the print.   I was no where nearly as cost effective as
>Harre's work.
>
>On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:12 PM, John Swindler wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Maybe it is because journalist are trained in composition, grammer and
> > creative writing, not in the topic they are trying to write about.
> > Creative
> > people go into journalism.  Logical people go into engineering.
> >
> > I once spent some time trying to edit a magazine.  Found that I
> > could not
> > compose text and then edit it.  Seemed to be two completely different
> > thought processes.  So I would try to spend several days putting
> > together
> > "garbage" just to get something down on paper, then would have to
> > come back
> > week or so later and try to edit for grammer and facts.  (and I am
> > very
> > envious of several others who seem to have the ability to compose
> > finished
> > text with no problem at all.)
> >
> > Many many years ago there was an article in Harvard Business Review
> > that
> > discussed that people seemed to analyze/plan on left side of brain
> > (sort of
> > logical side) and the right side tended to be more intuitive/
> > creative side.
> > One comment was that those who are technically proficient don't
> > always make
> > the best managers/leaders.  Seemed to make a lot of sense to this
> > non-creative person.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Bill Robb <bill937ca at yahoo.ca>
> >> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: The Tartan
> >> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:31:29 -0800 (PST)
> >>
> >> We have become a society that is always in a hurry.  I've had slides
> >> printed backwards. All you have to do is look at the image.  When
> >> the words
> >> on the destination sign are backwards the image is backwards. But
> >> in the
> >> photo lab all they do is look at the slide mounting.  If the slide is
> >> mounted backwards, they print it backwards!  You will find images
> >> scanned
> >> backwards in online archives. Obviously, no one is checking if the
> >> image is
> >> correct. Quality takes time and as a society we don't want to take
> >> time.
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Why is it so many journalism writers constantly make so many
> >> mistakes?
> >> What
> >> ever happened to getting the facts straight?  I get frustrated
> >> when I see
> >> mistakes after mistake that should not have ever gotten away.
> >>
> >> A 29 year old journalism major did an article on me here at
> >> Purchase and
> >> there are more things incorrect than correct.  Major music
> >> magazines going
> >> out to educators that have cover photos printed backwards are
> >> constantly
> >> showing up in the mailbox.
> >>
> >> Yes, I make mistakes and they have shown up in the PTM calendar
> >> and my
> >> book.
> >> God (and most people) knows I am not a perfect musician.  A few
> >> years back
> >> there was a stress reducing book entitled something along the
> >> lines of
> >> Don't
> >> Sweat the Small Stuff.   We need to learn to sweat the small stuff
> >> and the
> >> big stuff looks easy.
> >>
> >> Dennis Fred Cramer
> >>      Trombone
> >>
> >>
> >>
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