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Monthly Archives: August 2004

City editor Ray Hobbs

Thursday, August 12, 2004

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock
Thursday, Aug. 12, 2004. Colleague Ray Hobbs of Little Rock died Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004. He wasn’t old, just 53, but had hepatitis C. [Link to obit has expired.] Here are two recollections of Ray.
1. In 1982, maybe 1983, I was working at a suburban Dallas daily (Irving Daily News [...]

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Dupe duplicative dupe

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Doop a dupe a doop
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004. The Berkeley Breathed "Opus" panel for Sunday 8/8/04 looked very familiar (His syndicate does not allow open online access). So I walked from the paper on the dining table to my home office (the north side of the sunporch I have fenced off [...]

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Kerry’s gonna win

Friday, August 6, 2004

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock
Friday, Aug. 6, 2004: After conducting all the research that’s necessary — licked my right index finger and held it up — I finally can make a prediction on the presidential race: Kerry will win in a landslide.
I know the polls still show neck-and-neck, with less-than-expected bounce for Kerry from his [...]

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Being baited

Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock
Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004. Newspapers are suffering because they’ve lost both anger and humor, Jimmy Breslin said in a Poynter interview in late July. My slight spin would be that we’re trying too hard to be nice.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette colleague Jennifer Hansen wrote a few Wednesdays ago (no free hyperlink available) a [...]

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