From a blog post on the demise of alt-weeklies: "For reasons I’ve already laid out, when you report for an alt-weekly, you have to go deep. You have to figure out the not-obvious story. You have to become an engaging storyteller, not just a sharp transcriber. The editorial staff is small. (When I worked at the New Haven Advocate, the most full-time editorial staffers we ever had was seven, and that didn’t last long.) Your beat is broad. You need to learn your history, fast, so you know what to ask about and who to talk to. In general, you need to get really good. Really. Goddamned. Good."
http://itsbrianlarue.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/goodbye-advocate-weekly/ http://itsbrianlarue.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/goodbye-advocate-weekly/ A snippet from a long essay on "smarm": "Let's pause here to say: Joe Lieberman. "Joe. Lieberman. "Joe Lieberman! If you would know smarm, look to Joe Lieberman." http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 This makes three examples now of the convention that Feste and others here have declared doesn't exist (one of whom actually accused me of lying about it).
