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November 13, 2009
- Been getting a lot of comments along the lines of: why do you want to do that?? Just the general state of everything in the world. The dependency on the electronic world for everything. The realization that everything you do changes how you see and experience the world. Remembering what things were like before all this...both the bad AND the good. The reality with the economy and my ...
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October 30, 2009
- Not getting a daily newspaper has proved to be okay in a few ways. The most important, I think, is that I don't know there terrors of the day before, at least, not all at once. the terrors will seep in, throughout the day as I click on various internet sites and then go out into the world and talk to people."Did you hear about the health care bill?" someone will ask."Why ...
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October 22, 2009
- I do not understand people who don't read. I have a cousin who is in her mid-thirties and brags about how much she hates to read as if it is a good thing. She hates it so much, in fact, it's written on her Facebook profile. I'm not that close with her, but I can't help but wonder what kind of effect this may have on her son, who is seven. I wonder if he does well in school, and if has an ...
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October 1, 2009
- Here here! I was in the investment banking business and one thing I never did was back down from a war!I do not apologize for writing here on red room my observations and bringing to top of mind what I find to be ticks and shawdows illuminating what I see coming: A WAR against free! This is the best news I have read since I started reading about the idea that print might be dead. And the ...
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September 22, 2009
- A campaign executive for Gavin Newsom's governor's race said I was "scraping the bottom of the barrel" when I posted a photo of the mayor's green recycling bin in connection with a column about the city's new mandatory composting regulation. Point and shaky pun taken. But, despite my own best lowly efforts, the New York Times reports today that "Newspapers Have Not (yet) Hit ...
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September 14, 2009
- We interrupt this social network for the following rant against the new world media order: This rant is brought to you by a former member of the soon-to-be-extinct media elite – a guy who has started longing for the days when newspapers were newspapers and we all sat around smugly secure in the knowledge that we knew what the rest of you needed to know about the important events of the day.We ...
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August 27, 2009
- From my autobiography Manhattan Memories: A few years ago, I put together a selection of recent columns concentrating on ones that contained exclusive items that hadn't yet surfaced in daily papers in the West. Consulting the masthead of the Los Angeles Times, I found 13 editors listed. So I made up packages which I sent to each of them, with the suggestion that they start running a column like ...
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August 17, 2009
- In San Francisco (from Santa Cruz) for the weekend. Sat. night we went looking for a copy of Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, our favorite paper. Wanted to see Entertainment section, what was going to be happening the next day. Saturday night in San Francisco, Union Square, and not one newspaper in sight. No newstands, no kiosks. I approach a cop, "Would you happen to know where I could ...
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July 29, 2009
- Maybe some of you Red Room Chron folks can help me out.Heres my deal. I've subscribed for 40 years. I like to read Datebook with breakfast, around 5:30. I may leave the house by 7:30 and like to read the news on BART. I save the sports for lunch. For the last couple of years, our home delivery guy probably Buddhist maybe from Tibet or Nepal he used to bow each time he saw me ...
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July 7, 2009
- (Reposted from The Huffington Post)Michael Jackson died in the early afternoon on Thursday, June 25. I remember because my daughter texted the news to me from her summer college class about 2:45, when she was ostensibly listening to her professor. That’s not so remarkable. What is remarkable is that the next morning’s Los Angeles Times headline across the top of the front page screamed, ...
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