Posted on 10/26/2022 3:45:03 PM PDT by 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" …
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I was never a fan.
Yea, I think Malkin has put up with “so much for so long from others” way more than Trump. She was writing as a conservative when Trump was still a dimokRaT and the estab media had it in for her from the get-go. I love Trump but sometimes I think Trump is more about Trump than about conservatism in America. To me, Michelle was always an advocate for conservatism and traditionalism, plus she writes well IMHO. I think the movement is worse off for her absence.
“ Welcome to FR, I think.”
Dubious.
I always liked Michelle Malkin and hope she reappears on a new platform soon.
Thank God we have Steve Bannon.
She was Little Lulu at FR until she became famous, and then she left the site.
I love President Trump and consider him and Ronald Reagan to be the two greatest presidents in my lifetime. I hope he wins again in 2024. But in 2013, I had the same opinion of Donald Trump that Michelle had.
Trump says Malkin is a “dummy” and was “born stupid.”
Trump was wrong about that. He was also wrong about a lot of the people he appointed to his cabinet. This time I hope he listens to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
Anyway, I hope by now Michelle and President Trump have buried the hatchet. They are both great American Patriots.
“ She was Little Lulu at FR until she became famous, and then she left the site.”
I didn’t know that. I remember her very early columns with the small black and white photo with her hair up.
Did Newsmax cancel Michelle Malkin’s Sovereign Nation? Why?
That’s weird.
Same experience.
I bet she keeps writing.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/522763/posts
Michelle Malkin (back to story)
September 14, 2001
Aid and comfort to the enemy
She will be missed
...or running for gov of California
Yes, folks many of us remember her posts here on FR, she was/is one of us
This is a case of BOTH being wrong about each other. It Happens.
I did not know that either.
Maybe she will come back?
Last I heard Michelle lives in Colorado Springs Colorado. I don’t think she’ll be moving to California to run for any office
That line is paraphrased from Seneca.
Why do you say stuff like that about her. She’s one of us. She’s a good egg.
Twitchy too, I didn’t care for some of their editors over there. And Hot Air, don’t get me started about Allah pundit.
Her getting the axe from CR TV alongside Gavin McInnes back on late 2018 is why I didn’t go over to Blaze a few short months later.
Michelle is a gem.
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