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Technical Difficulties

Voices gone wild

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, May 3, 2005. It is far too easy for executives of media to pigeonhole columns into commentary. Or analysis. It then needs to be consistent, which is why humor and certain other person viewpoint columns are out these days. You can’t have your toothpaste be peppermint one day and […]

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News, Spin

Run, bride, run

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, May 2, 2005. The news has been full of a woman in Georgia who just before her wedding disappeared. The times being the times, allegedly the family presumed kidnapping or even that the fiance killed her. The police, according to the AP, considered this a criminal case. This young […]

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Technical Difficulties

The 60-second blogger

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 1, 2005. Can there be a 60-second blogger or columnist or essayist, in the manner of Dan Hurley’s “60-Second Novelist”? Yes. Why else pose the question? I just reviewed Hurley’s Web site, including listening to a seven-minute NPR interview — serious for public radio (not as big as […]