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 a fan until she launched her denunciation of birthers, and I’ve never read, watched or listened to her since then. It’s obvious that Obama was born in Kenya, and I think she knew that.
The “Back the Blue” Rally in Denver that NBC sent a “producer” with a paid supposed “Pinkerton” bodyguard who was in point of fact a CUTOUT murderer (who was cleared btw by the lib judiciary in Colorado), working for the NBC we all know and... hate! The NBC that supported bernie bots, that supported BLM, Romney and especially the paid minions of AntiFA.
This “bodyguard” had Denver Post video and camera pre-placed for a confrontation with a cowboy hat designer and fabricator who was there (he NEVER drew his firearm, but did pull mace against the bodyguard- FReepers here have the video that proves all of this). The “bodyguard” drew his firearm and murdered this Police Supporter member of “Back the Blue”.
The AntiFA scared the crap out of Michelle Malkin— because of course they HATE Phillipine/Americans, and Conservatives just like they hate Blacks! Fact. Michelle Malkin- intelligent principled trailblazer of media Twitchy and others. BTW she never found her God-daughter Marziela— after 10 plus years— still gone, probably dead or disappeared.
And for those who forget here is Malkin making it plain that there are DEEP State Actors who need to be exposed. That makes her anti-Mcainiacs, non-Bushie, and recognizing there is a destructive anti-Constitutional administrative state that is ruling us, despite efforts to “out” them. Hardly a pseudo Conservative. And don’t forget CPAC a few years back- and pointing out the very same opportunists like Gold and Shapiro.
Here on Jesse Watters in the Trump days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbqJRW1eySk
Hard to believe she’s 52 years old. She deserves some down-time. Let her go silent for a few years, take care of family matters, then rise phoenix-like with renewed energy.
I remember Malkin when she was first making a name for herself at the Seattle Times. In her last article at the Times, A Few Parting Questions; Thanks For The Memories, July 27, 1999 (when modems still beeped), she wrote:
"A political foe once compared me to a toe fungus "because, you know, you just won't go away." That's one of the best compliments I've ever received. A nagging toe fungus, you see, is forgotten but never quite gone. Such is the aspiration of the lowly local newspaper columnist - to provoke and aggravate and cause discomfort long after the writer's byline disappears from view."And then she tore into unfinished business regarding corruption, abuse of power, hypocrisy, and the culture from Seattle to all of Washington State on her way out the door. IIRC on a more humorous note, a few years later when the internet was staring to get big, there was collective disappointment online when conservatives found out she war married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯."And so, even in valediction, I leave you with a trail of questions still itching to be answered (or asked):"
Its sad to see her announce a retirement on a down note. What she says about the state of the news industry and duplicity of the conservative press is spot on. There has been a slow change in the news industry and how people can speak freely, it is not for the better.
I hope she will be like a fungus and come back. Please take that as a compliment.
Tucker not a good guy? Say it ain’t so!
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You could ask his best pal, Hunter Biden or another pal - the deceased Hell’s Angels leader - they could give you an earful of his goodness, surely.
I think it’s an error to label Donald Trump conservative.
Like all who believe they should be president he has an enormous ego.
But I do believe Trump truly wants America to be great and as a deal-maker can do it if he just chooses better appointments. People of large ego often have trouble admitting mistakes.
Michelle will be back. She’s too good to be retired.
Even Greta van Susteren has returned, after a long hiatus.
You can see her on Newsmax at 6 P.m.
Michelle will get through her midlife crisis, and she will return stronger and smarter.
The best gold goes through the highest heat, and comes out even more pure and refined.
Right on point!
She should move to South Carolina and run for a house seat in 2024. Then replace Lindsey Graham in 2026. Or actually, move into any red state with a RINO Senator up for election in 2024.
We need to start backing conservative Dems in states with open primaries. Let’s keep them in their own lanes.
I agree.
Surely you have some links?
That’s some important info you have.
-PJ
So, you just made that up.
Fake slam on Tucker.
its all on video and on fr go look, troll.
Welcome to FR.
Ah yes...when referring to a beautiful woman, FReepers do appreciate a photo.
They’re worse than Democrats.
Wasn't that a verse used by Denzel Washington at the end of his movie "The Book of Eli"?
Newsmax is not your friend. They are house conservatives, like almost all of Fox. When it comes down to who is in power, they support the deep state, not the people of America.
You are correct.
The first media outlet to refer to Biden as “President-elect”, immediately after the election.
Shut down people who said the election was fraudulent, e.g., Mike Lindell. Right in the middle of a sentence they cut him off and ended his segment.
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