Here to inform and be a little offensive Was learning cursive really necessary? It’s become a habit for me to tune in Channel 7 (ABC) at 5 p.m. to see and hear the local area news. Unfortunately, I’m often a bit early, which gives me the last few minutes of the Oprah Winfrey Show. In […]
In a September edition of Jottings, I wrote about finding articles about Henry Ford that first appeared in the Detroit Free Press in 1938. Iffy The Dopester (Free Press editor Malcolm Bingay) headed the six-part series, Who does Henry Ford Think He Is? I may cover all six parts in time, but I don’t want […]
Hang on! There’s bound to be something relative I’m going to start thinking positive, but I know it won’t work. ? I know it can’t be just me, but when I see a headline on an editorial page that says something like ‘Michigan in need of hardy dose of reality? I first check the ending. […]
Just before the Fourth of July, friend Mickey gave me a note meant for that day. I put it aside ‘until I had more time.? You know how that works. Re-reading it recently I concluded it’s apropos for every day, not just Independence Day. It has two lead-ins: 1. What kind of men were they? […]
For all my television viewing life, over half a century, I’ve known, and believed advertising has had restricted time slots. I had no proof, no solid information, but it is what I believed. So, being a computer illiterate, I asked Don Rush to confirm my beliefs. On the internet, he found that in the 1960s, […]
Please bare with me as I go back to those thrilling days of yesteryear to set up this modern day Jottings. Okay, here we go . . . The Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant in 1935. And, in the 1930s The Detroit Free Press had a faceless columnist, Iffy The Dopester. Iffy’s booklet […]
Think short, write short, hold on to your readers During my decades of owning a half dozen weekly newspapers, I urged writing ‘short.? I’d tell new reporters, ‘get in, get out and go to the obituaries.? They didn’t do it. Journalism professors, and all other breeds of academes, think thesis. Make it long to prove […]
? Does the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) have as many American speaking news readers and commentators as ABC, Fox, CBS and NBC has Britishers? England’s Christiana Amanpor is being promoted here lately. ? Do couples really have ‘Cialis? moments? You’ve seen the commercials. ? Seriously reader, don’t you wonder sometimes how much money organizations like […]
Throughout most of my adult life, and that’s over 50 years, I’ve had good thoughts about Michigan’s utility companies. They’ve been good at what they do – supply communications, fuel and electricity. Consumers Energy, Detroit Edison and AT&T. They’ve been almost like family, there when we need them. I’ve never met a utility worker, those […]
Last March, the Waco, Texas Environmental Quality office received a complaint. It was alleged that David Cousins leased out a hunting cabin and allowed hunters to defecate in the woods. It was also alleged there is no restroom, and Mr. Cousins is planning to extend plumbing into a creek next to the cabin. The complaint […]