tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338267967026201196.post6844055334693088921..comments2023-08-14T06:54:19.360-05:00Comments on The Wise Bard: Re: Hiding posting on Iraq under comments to law school lounges:Alan Jay Weisbardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07992336604207867511noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338267967026201196.post-11565088346128410402007-03-23T14:42:00.000-05:002007-03-23T14:42:00.000-05:00And yet another variant:I love to quote legendary ...And yet another variant:<BR/><BR/>I love to quote legendary journalist and muckraker I.F. Stone, who is alleged to have said, "The great thing about The New York Times and The Washington Post is that you never know where you'll find a front page story." Besides being a rather amusing thing to say, this comment has a lot of meaning, so much so that it has inspired a brand-new Nygaard Notes feature, which I plan to call "Off The Front Page." In every issue--or, whenever I feel like it--I will point out a story or two that I think should have been on the front page, but that I actually found in a lesser location in the Mainstream Corporate For-Profit Agenda-Setting Bound Media.<BR/><BR/>It's beginning to sound a lot like apocryphal. Front page mention to first reader to tie it down.Alan Jay Weisbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992336604207867511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338267967026201196.post-33980293371709910152007-03-23T14:39:00.000-05:002007-03-23T14:39:00.000-05:00Another variant: ripped from Christopher Hitchens ...Another variant: ripped from Christopher Hitchens in Slate several years back:<BR/><BR/>I.F. Stone used to say that the Washington Post was a great newspaper because you never knew on what page you would find the front-page story. I find this rule to be highly variant in the case of the New York Times, which frequently puts great stuff on its front page but which often prints it upside down.Alan Jay Weisbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992336604207867511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338267967026201196.post-83064241618253562972007-03-23T14:31:00.000-05:002007-03-23T14:31:00.000-05:00From Inside Higher Ed (ripped out of context, but ...From Inside Higher Ed (ripped out of context, but it will serve. I really have to learn how to do those links!)<BR/><BR/>IF Stone’s Weekly<BR/><BR/>I wonder what Stone would think about the internet. In a very real sense, IF Stone’s Weekly was the first blog. Though a professional journalist, his newsletter was a pioneering work of citizen journalism. If he were active today, it is not too hard to imagine there would be a lot of people linking to IFStone.com<BR/><BR/>Jonathan Cohen, at 7:25 am EDT on October 12, 2006Alan Jay Weisbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992336604207867511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338267967026201196.post-5700132792295921822007-03-23T14:24:00.000-05:002007-03-23T14:24:00.000-05:00OK, if you insist, I will add that extra label. Wh...OK, if you insist, I will add that extra label. <BR/>Which label? <BR/>Huh?Alan Jay Weisbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992336604207867511noreply@blogger.com