Michelle Malkin Signs Off: 'An Ending, but Not the End'

CNS ^ | OCTOBER 26, 2022 | Michelle Malkin

[NeverCheney]

When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1992, I learned that "-30-" (pronounced "dash thirty dash") was the journalist's code for letting an editor know where your copy ended. Most media historians th believe the typesetting mark originated when news was filed by telegraph. Western Union's famous mid-19th-century 92 Code of numerical shorthand signals lists the meaning of "-30-" as:

"No more — the end."

I prefer the definition in Webster's Dictionary:

"A sign of completion."

From 1992-1999, I wrote an estimated 300 bylined newspaper columns and nearly 1,000 unsigned editorials combined for the Los Angeles Daily News and Seattle Times. Since Creators Syndicate started carrying my column nationally in 1999, I've penned nearly 2,000 weekly or bi-weekly columns over 1,177 weeks, for hundreds of print and website clients, totaling more than 1.1 million words. It has been a blessing to work in a career that I have loved, getting paid by the line to opine, as a proud "ink-stained wretch" whose first high-school job was as a press inserter for my hometown newspaper, the Atlantic City Press, back in the late 1980s.

The sentimental English major in me finds it altogether fitting to bring my column-writing to close after "dash thirty dash" years.

Why now? The professional and personal reasons are myriad. In this modern age of oversharing, I'm not going to get into every last one. Suffice to say, the American media landscape has changed dramatically since I entered this industry as a 22-year-old idealist who truly believed the "pen is mightier than the sword." (Side note: Eagle-eyed readers who followed my blog writing in the early 2000s might recall that my original website logo was a pen/knife with the phrase "the pen became a clarion" …

[SaveFerris]

(who followed my blog writing)

Oh my!!!!!!

[caver]

Welcome to FR, I think.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Now the liberal media is dominated by endless supplies of smug, usually very pale-faced millennial J-school grads spouting about "diversity" while parroting the same worn set of views on whites as evil, America as oppressor, nuclear families as abnormal, and liberal democracy as sacrosanct.

"Conservative" media is not much better. It's dominated by snot-nosed D.C. libertarian elites from overpriced universities who slavishly promote "free-market capitalism" and cast "big government" as our greatest enemy, while private Silicon Valley corporations and their nonprofit allies crush nationalist dissent, handcuff free speech and deplatform free thinkers through censorship (hard and soft) and lawfare (systematic abuse of the courts to harm political critics).

Facts. I will miss Michelle's writing.

[NeverCheney]

Hopefully, this will be like one of the “retirements” by Frank Sinatra, Cher , or Streisand, and there will be more “last appearances” in the future

[GingisK]

EOT, End Of Transmission. 0x04

[Ann Archy]

Newbie, you bring BAD NEWS!

[Chgogal]

“ Because of my peacefully expressed reporting, opinions and speeches, my family has been punished and stigmatized, my reputation tarnished and my voice squelched. It's not “big government” that waged this war on my career. It's a constellation of vindictive wrongthink police in the private sector, from the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, to foreign newspapers and moneyed interests that have no business influencing American politics, to “conservative” swamp creatures and profiteers such as Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Mona Charen and Ben Shapiro, and even to former colleagues at the Fox News Channel, which blacklisted me several years ago and told a friend of mine who was a guest on Tucker Carlson's show not to say my name after antifa rioters had attacked me and others on stage at a Back the Blue rally in Denver a few years ago. (My friend ignored the warning. God bless him.)”

Tucker not a good guy? Say it ain't so!

[griswold3]

Closing time..
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.

[Mark]

I subscribed to that newspaper(Originally The Green Sheet) in 1965 then The Daily News. I cancelled subscription when the editorial went along with the Trump Russia collusion group of the Boston Globe.

[House Atreides]

“ Facts. I will miss Michelle’s writing”
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I’ll miss it also. She always had a way of discerning the reality of things and people and her writing would “nail it”. I hope her “next chapter” is as great as her first chapter has been.😿😿

[fidelis]

Just like Kari Lake who left the corrupt world of journalism and has gone on to bigger and better things while never missing a chance to expose the self-important rot and dishonesty of the Fake News.

[House Atreides]

“ Tucker not a good guy? Say it ain’t so! ”
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I don’t think that’s what she said. Perhaps she was referring to a producer?

[Falconspeed]

“This is an ending, but not the end.” Oh well. Malkin is brilliant. I trust she will be writing one column every week for many years in the future.

[NeverCheney]

Chief of communications for Gov. Kari Lake? I’m not starting a rumor, just suggesting a great fit for both women.

[dennisw]

Her opus. Did she get vaxxxed. I don’t think so.

[jonrick46]

Rules . . .

Gorgeous Michelle Malkin

[Monterrosa-24]

I hope she runs for office.