ANOTHER GODDAMNED IDEA September 21, 2007
In my communications with other writers, I’ve discovered that there’s a wide variety of characteristics among them. Some, for example, struggle for an idea they feel is worth writing about, maybe only coming up with something that satisfies them every ten years or so. Many of these writers keep coming back to the same idea, over and over again, until the next rare inspiration comes along. If they’re good enough at what they do, nobody will mind that they’ve been there before.
Other writers are figuratively plagued with new ideas, and, after a lifetime of it, …
IS THIS A “SENIOR MOMENT”? September 12, 2007
Your assistance, please:
Several years ago, I wrote an essay, which I remember as having
been called “Manhandling the Media”, which details a plan for steering
the reporting and editorial policies of newspapers, radio, and TV
toward something more closely resembling the truth — by sending a
very special message, not to them, but to the advertisers who support
them.
I’ve just started writing a new article now that revisits and
refines that technique, which I believe could become a potent weapon
against the current Black Plague of fascism sweeping the world, as
well …