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Common Sense Journalism

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  • more lowercase silliness

    Number of comments: 3

    Filter magazine's review of the Regina Spektor album "Far" begins:
    The lowercase 'f' in far is telling.
    No, it isn't.

    The review continues to lowercase the album title (and, in an extra added bonus blow to reading comprehension, uses neither italics nor quotation marks), presumably because [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:31pm EST by Bill

The Engine Room

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Al's Morning Meeting

Working With Words

  • After All, It Worked ...

    Number of comments: 2
    After All, It Worked
    Pretty Well For Him

    'Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.'
    --Albert Einstein. Like most of what the great one did and said, this seemingly simple maxim contains deeper layers of insight. How are you [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:56am EST by John Ettorre

The Grammarphobia Blog

  • The daffydils of Broadway

    Q: In the song "Lullaby of Broadway," there's a line about the "daffodils? at Angelo's and Maxie's. Maybe ?daffodils? refers to chorus girls or such, but I suspect that it?s being used here to describe gays. Am I off base?

    A: "Lullaby of Broadway" celebrates "The rumble of the [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:10am EST by Pat and Stewart

Untold Stories

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  • Intent vs. deed

    Number of comments: 2
    A defensive lapse at Wichita gives the annoying weasel Todd Tiahrt a free shot at his opponent's fusebox. Let's have a look, in case something similar crops up around the country.

    The problem isn't the story, which manages to note in the second graf [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:05am EST by fev

Al's Morning Meeting

Words at Work

  • Hitting the Nail on the Head

    Number of comments: 0
    The Colorado Springs Independent has a stinging piece on Freedom Communications and its outsourcing of staff work. This editor really says it all but read the whole piece.  "Companies always screw their employees, unless it's a company who realizes its value is in having intellectual property," says Al Lewis, award-winning columnist [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:51pm EST by Pam

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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  • Eek, a Jayhawk

    Number of comments: 0
    And this just in* from MSNBC's sports desk: Kansas eeks win!

    Tnx to Sean for the screen grab. Now stay tuned for UNC vs. OSU.

    * OK, "just in yesterday" -- busy times around the old manse. [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:35pm EST by fev

The Engine Room

Al's Morning Meeting

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Untold Stories

The Grammarphobia Blog

  • The exact same time

    Q: Here?s a pet peeve of mine. In the last 10 years or so, people have been saying things like "the exact same time" in place of what I think should be "exactly the same time." (Even Leonard Lopate does it on WNYC.) Please enlighten me if I?m wrong about [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:10am EST by Pat and Stewart

Working With Words

  • The Act of Writing As an Exercise ...

    Number of comments: 8
    The Act of Writing As an Exercise in Honesty

    'Somehow, when we start writing, all the lies we told ourselves, all the deceptions and mistaken beliefs that we held up as a shield, are challenged. We can do it in prose or poetry, in fiction or non-fiction, in a [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:48am EST by John Ettorre

Triangle Grammar Guide

Al's Morning Meeting

Writing Tools

The Engine Room

  • 'No More Big Gaps'

    Number of comments: 3
    No More Big GapsThe company behind the adhesive 'No More Nails', UniBond, also makes a foam filler called 'No More Big Gaps'. What a great name.

    However while 'No More Nails' is a substitute for nails (in certain circumstances), 'No More Big Gaps' is not [...]

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:56pm EST by JD (The Engine Room)

Al's Morning Meeting

Untold Stories

  • Disappearing Himalaya

    Number of comments: 0

    Rebecca Byerly, for the Pulitzer Center

    While people across the globe are becoming more aware that the glaciers in the western Himalaya are receding, few know how information about the glaciers, weather systems, and river levels in remote regions of the world like Kashmir are gathered. Cut off from the [...]


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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:54am EST by Pulitzer Center
  • Sixty hours of terror: The attack on Mumbai

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    Jason Motlagh, Special to the Pulitzer Center

    Virginia Quarterly Review



    Over the past two years the Pulitzer Center has supported Jason Motlagh's reporting from south Asia, working in collaboration with print and broadcast outlets to produce extraordinary projects on IndiaNepalSri Lanka and Afghanistan. Over the next four [...]


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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:44am EST by Pulitzer Center

The Grammarphobia Blog

  • Yes, we can

    Q: Here in America, we have cans and can openers. But in Britain, they have tins and tin openers. Our canned goods come from canneries. Do the British get theirs from tinneries? Yes, I know that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds (or something like that).

    A: Excuse [...]

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:10am EST by Pat and Stewart
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