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Grumpy Editor: Coal power plants

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. August 03, 2015. Obama’s clean air regulations smack U.S. coal industry. Today’s unveiling of President Barack Obama’s proposed environmental regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants will be a blow to the U.S. coal industry, a long-time source of low-cost electricity generation, notes Grumpy Editor. 0160;Even the Pentagon - - with its 23,000 military and civilian employees...

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Major Garrett deserves a boost in "rank" to colonel (Grumpy Editor)

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. Laquo; Number of U.S. troops, ships drops as other nations build. Reporters unload colorful words to describe Trump ». July 20, 2015. Major Garrett deserves a boost in "rank" to colonel. In pursuit of information, journalism students are urged to ask solid, often tough, questions in efforts to gain a full picture, reminds Grumpy Editor. Who once taught a news writing course at a California university. All I was tryi...

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Reporters unload colorful words to describe Trump (Grumpy Editor)

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. Laquo; Major Garrett deserves a boost in rank to colonel. Obama’s clean air regulations smack U.S. coal industry ». July 27, 2015. Reporters unload colorful words to describe Trump. With scores of media members following Donald Trump as he makes the rounds around the country as a Republican presidential candidate - - with the highest poll numbers - -  wide editorializing prevails in stories, notes Grumpy Editor.

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Meandering with Maggie: November 2008

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Yes, I work in the library, but I do other things besides that. I am an actor and can say I met the Mafia when appearing in a cafe theatre in Boston. And lived to tell the tale! I also teach at times, as required. I write when the muse summons me and am webmaster for a club site. When I am not doing any of these things, I like to knit, sew, read and attempt to get a yard worthy of Ideal Homes. View my complete profile. Learning the Value of Blogs! Thursday, November 20, 2008. Learning the Value of Blogs!

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Grumpy Editor

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. August 22, 2016. Princeton University bans any word containing ‘man’. This just in:  Princeton University in New Jersey no longer has freshmen - - they are now known as first-year students, observes Grumpy Editor. It’s all part of a national trend toward doing away with man. In solo form or contained in a descriptive word, and going gender neutral. Anything with man gets tossed. The New York Times . The Times now is...

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Grumpy Editor: Media

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. August 15, 2016. Monkey business in the air grabs editors' attention. Print and broadcast media last week went bananas over a monkey loose on a plane report that resulted in police being called to greet a Frontier Airlines flight after it landed in Las Vegas, observed Grumpy Editor. Ellis said he has taken Gizmo with him everywhere with me every single day since the monkey was a few weeks old. Most missed this one: ...

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Grumpy Editor: Reporting

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. January 25, 2016. NASA/NOAA news release, media ‘raise’ temperature. One reason why global warming/climate change may be alarming many folks, including those in the White House, is that some in the media, including copy editors, do not know exactly how to report weather readings, notes  Grumpy. This causes a great exaggeration. As a most recent example, Grumpy Editor. Fahrenheit (0.13 degrees. Now, wait a minute.

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Grumpy Editor: Pentagon

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. January 11, 2016. Transported Hellfire U.S. missile winds up in Cuba. Not getting wide print coverage is the blushing case of a U.S. Hellfire missile that disappeared two years ago after departing Orlando International Airport for Spain, then moving on a truck through a chunk of Europe, eventually winding up a zig-zag trip in Cuba, observes  Grumpy Editor. The Wall Street Journal. While Washington insists there is n...

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Grumpy Editor: White House

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. May 02, 2016. White House snubs weakest U.S. growth in two years. Noted that while President Obama was trumpeting his mastery of the economy in a. Magazine interview, the White House labored to explain a first-quarter economic report showing the weakest growth in two years, observed Grumpy Editor. The Wall Street Journal. IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE. The president urged the budding journalists&#0...

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Grumpy Editor: Navy

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Critical observations of print/broadcast/Web media plus public relations and advertising. July 13, 2015. Number of U.S. troops, ships drops as other nations build. Broadcast and print media during the week were so focused on heavy coverage of the Confederate flag being lowered in South Carolina that they missed a significant development - - further slicing the number of U.S. military personnel, observed Grumpy Editor. How big of a cut? That’s equivalent to about three Army divisions. That development cam...