Category Archives: Joel’s J School

Vote for Susan!

Posted on July 23, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Susan Tompor is on the hustings. She’s not running for office. She’s trying to win five hundred bucks for a charity devoted to helping people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Susan is the personal finance columnist at … Continue reading →

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Parsley, sage, rosemary and journalism

Posted on July 22, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell There’s a lot of yackity-yack from traditional journalists about how bloggers don’t adhere to the same high standards as our morally superior print cousins. In this exalted view, practitioners of the old format — for example, newspapers … Continue reading →

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Unconstitutional = whatever bugs Matty

Posted on July 15, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Spike Kopee JOTR Copy Editor Normally, we copy editors like to stay anonymous. We glower under our green eye shades, slash the copy of hireling writers and toss insults at those reporters brave enough to object to the lavish … Continue reading →

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Warm praise for prevaricator

Posted on July 6, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Luke Warm Professor of Mendacity University of Munchausen Students! We are halfway through the coursework in this class, Deceptive Prevarication 101, and I would like to interrupt my lecture today so that we can reflect upon and admire one … Continue reading →

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Senator Patterson’s stimulus plan

Posted on June 17, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Republicans never cease to amaze me. You think they’re all in the pockets of business and industry, and then out of the blue some GOP hack shows a streak of brilliance. So it is with Michigan Senator … Continue reading →

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I’m ‘yellow’! No, I’m ‘red’!

Posted on June 13, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell It’s an idictment meant to unsettle the nerves of any correct-thinking Journalist: I’ve been charged with Yellow Journalism. My accuser — whom I don’t know — sent me an e-mail under the subject heading “Manny Maroun”: Joel, … Continue reading →

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‘Loyalty’ and all that

Posted on May 10, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Shhh! Please keep this under your hat. It’s an idea that could make me a bundle of money. I don’t mind sharing it with you, but please, PLEASE, don’t pass it on to somebody who might steal … Continue reading →

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Vote fraud in Bloomfield? You be the AG

Posted on May 9, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell If you’d been Michigan’s attorney general, what would you have done? Allowed a state trooper to proceed with his investigation into possible corruption in a 2001 election? Or would you have killed the investigation? The question is … Continue reading →

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Bloomfield Farce: Phony from the get-go

Posted on May 4, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Six years ago, I wrote a story about election high-jinks in a development project that is back in the news. Wannabe real estate developer Craig Schubiner’s vaunted $2 billion Bloomfield Park, it turns out, is a huge … Continue reading →

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New journalism award

Posted on April 20, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell I’m having a tough time restraining my star columnist, Luke Warm, from having the first word on something I want to write about. Warm, the renowned Professor of Mendacity at the University of Munchausen, is so excited … Continue reading →

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