Sixteen months ago, I wrote a story. It was a nice little story, with some good quotes from the main player. I sold it to a provincial paper. I posted the story on my website. Thanks to the vagaries of thesub editing process, what appeared on the website was different to what appeared in print. …
Tag Archive: personal
Jan 21
News Business
We lie. We don’t always mean to, but we do. We’re in a hurry, overworked, and just don’t care any more. Now and then, we have our own agendas, buy that’s for the names, the guys you recognize from chat shows, not the anonymous drones who bring you 90% of the news. We used to …
Jul 20
July 20, 1969
I was four years old. Being four, I went to bed early, probably around 7pm, having spent a full day exhausting myself with te games four years olds fill their days with during the long summers. It wasn’t exactly the noise that wakened me, since there wasn’t any real noise. It was more a murmuring, …
Sep 13
Fighting Back
I haven’t a clue what happened in the world today. I picked up a copy of the Irish Times to check the jobs listings in just case there was anything interesting going, but apart from Doonesbury, I didn’t read a word of it. Today was too important a day to worry about news. My mother …