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Body, Home, Street

Organic boilerplate

Newspaper supplements as a rule have disclaimers in them. Sure they’re small type, but they are there. They basically give the dates of the sale, that rainchecks are offered if an advertised item gets depleted and that the prices are exactly as posted. Ozark Natural Foods, my favorite grocery store, has up and run a […]

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American Culture

Boo hoo

Why having an ombudsman seems to be a publication’s cop-out: From Romenesko: “Atlanta Journal-Constitution reader Carolyn Worthy fears 12-year-old ballplayer Josh Lester will be scarred for life as a result of the paper’s decision to picture him crying after his team lost a Little League World Series game. Ombud Angela Tuck writes: ‘Had a similar […]

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Body, Home, Street

No Pox on This Tax

A pox of this tax, or a tax of this pox, (twist of Falstaff’s line of Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, part 2) We should, as these editorials all attest, vote “yes” to all four of Fayetteville’s tiny tax increases. Northwest Arkansas Times, and the Demzette. Should the Morning News publish a […]