Robert H. Smith dead: Son of the builder who helped inspire the Solomon character
Update, 2:05 p.m., Dec. 31, 2009: Just-posted commentary on the Washington Post’s less-than-complete obit of Robert Smith. – D.R. Robert
Category: The Solomon Scandals
Why Editor & Publisher will NEVER review ‘The Solomon Scandals’
I love newspapers, but I’m not sure if that’s always returned. As a journalist friend put it, quoting a popular
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
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
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
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
The Georgetown name game: Roffman, Rothman, Solomon and The Georgetowner
Two kinds of parties show up in The Solomon Scandals, my D.C. media novel: the private variety (“party-parties”) and “name-in-the-paper
The nuts and bolts of bribing a bureaucrat—or at least the guy in the photo
How to bribe a corrupt bureaucrat? No need for cash in brown bags. In The Solomon Scandals I tell of
David Rothman at Large 