Wash. Post killing off domestic news bureaus: D.C. ‘prism’ better than the full story?
The Washington Telegram, the daily in The Solomon Scandals, is where good stories so often go to die—for example, the
Author: David Rothman
David Rothman is the founder and publisher of the TeleRead e-book site and cofounder of LibraryEndowment.org. He is also author of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. Other books are The Solomon Scandals novel and six tech-related books on topics ranging from the Internet to laptops. Passionate on digital divide issues, he is now pushing for the creation of a national digital library endowment.
Should the New York Times ditch its sports section?
In The Solomon Scandals, Jon Stone reflects on sports team preferences as an indicator of character. George McWilliams, the executive
A few words on tech, ‘screening’ and e-text—and Danny Bloom (1949-2032?)
I date back to the Smith Corona days of newspapers, and I can fondly recall a group named something like
Should Web sites bossed by ad agencies replace your daily newspaper someday?
The CEO of giant WPP Group—a global ad-agency holding company with major financial firepower and a fondness for acquisitions—complains of
A WASHINGTON novel
The Solomon Scandals blog comes out of Alexandria, Virginia, just across the Potomac from D.C., and the novel itself is
‘Truman’ quote’s D.C. variant: ‘Solomon Scandals’ blog cited by noted amateur etymologist
Who was the first on Earth to utter a classic line, or something close to it: “If you want a
Ad biz’s Gordon Gekko sees lines blurring between news and ads—and WANTS news biz to shrink
Sy Solomon the imaginary real estate tycoon is pals with the imaginary George McWilliams, executive editor of the imaginary Washington
Fisticuff in the Washington Post’s newsroom: And here you thought ‘Scandals’ was only a NOVEL?
Henry Allen, a Pulitzer Prize winner in his late 60s, punched the face of feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia—right there in
Oil-enriched pols vs. a green Al Gore: New York Times story unfair to ex-VP?
It’s alchemy. Take a middle-class or moderately wealthy politician and send him or her to Washington long enough. Presto! Suddenly
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