Brick

Brick at its best is a Retro Metro Col­umn. The rest of the time, Brick is a wordy blog.

Retro Metro refers to the tra­di­tion of print papers hav­ing one or more com­men­ta­tors promi­nent on a local news page — not the edi­to­r­ial page — sev­eral times a week.

Brick is inde­pen­dent, not affil­i­ated with any com­mer­cial pub­li­ca­tion. Alas, the author some­times is, that’s the nature of free­lance jour­nal­ism. Ben S. Pol­lock assumes read­ers of Brick can tell the difference.

This is the About the Author page. That’s Ben S. Pol­lock in black-and-white, an old col­umn standing-hed mug shot. Mr. Pol­lock, an Arkansas-based edi­tor and blog­ger, is 2012–14 direc­tor of online media for the National Soci­ety of News­pa­per Colum­nists, hav­ing been its 2010-12 pres­i­dent. For more on Mr. Pol­lock, visit his Mirthol­ogy, a Loose Leaflet, the home page and way-back archives of the over­all Web site.

Con­tact

E-mail here: ben@benpollock.com . That address gets huge amounts of spam, despite the so-called fil­ters, so it may be a few days before Mr. Pol­lock sees your mes­sage. It might get acci­den­tally deleted. Sorry about that.

Alter­na­tive: Write a com­ment on any Brick. As com­ments are mod­er­ated, I’ll see that.