Archive for February, 2008

A Wake without Booze

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The irascible Jack Shafer writes in praise of booze in the newsroom. It’s easy to reduce all of what is wrong with American journalism to the near industrywide ban on booze in the newsroom. So I will. Hear, hear!

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Caen on Martinis

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“Martinis are like breasts, one isn’t enough, and three is too many.” — Herb Caen

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