Monthly Archives: August 2004

City editor Ray Hobbs

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

Dupe duplicative dupe

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

Kerry’s gonna win

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

Being baited

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)