Category Archives: Joel’s J School

Business model for newspapers

Posted on November 15, 2009 by hro50ta1

by Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] Heard about a business model for newspapers. Goes like this: Write news, sell ads, print a paper and hawk it, mail it, put it in vending machines, newsstands and let people decide if they want to … Continue reading →

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My Times ‘beer allowance’

Posted on November 12, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] Odd situation I have with The New York Times, which wants to charge me a $520 fee for reprinting a story I wrote for them 30 years ago. They only paid me seventy-five bucks for the … Continue reading →

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Who scotched the tale?

Posted on November 9, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] You never know who scotched the tale, Only that it didn’t run. No space! No space! You know that’s bull. You never know why the yarn got spiked, Only that it didn’t run. No space! No … Continue reading →

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Class party

Posted on November 5, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] I’m still amazed at The New York Times thinking they can charge me to reprint a story I wrote for their newspaper 30 years ago. It stinks. They paid me seventy-five bucks in 1979, worth $211 … Continue reading →

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Big Ed’s ghost

Posted on November 4, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] We at JOTR are firm DISBELIEVERS in any kind of occult happenings, yet the appearance of an e-mail purportedly from the Other World piqued our curiosity. Its claim to have come from the late Wayne County … Continue reading →

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Varnishing Detroit’s ‘Free’ Press

Posted on November 3, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] There was a time back in the 1980s when The Detroit Free Press killed not one, not two, but THREE editorial cartoons lampooning then U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese. Bosses were afraid those unvarnished drawings might … Continue reading →

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Vanity publishing and The NY Times

Posted on October 27, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] Far as I can recall, I started writing my book, Shoestring Reporter, 28 years ago. I’d just landed a job as a full time staff writer with the South Bend Tribune and was quite full of … Continue reading →

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Thou shalt not

Posted on October 26, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell [paypal-donation] If it wasn’t evident in my essay, “Watching them die,” about the Associated Press reporter who witnesses executions in Texas, I am opposed to capital punishment. But as I later reflected on my reaction to the New … Continue reading →

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‘Objectivity’ vs. truth

Posted on October 23, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Luke Warm Professor of Mendacity, University of Munchausen Today, I’m going to talk about telling really huge whoppers and getting the media to go along. Myra Megahertz, Dean of Manipulation here at U of M, asked me to give … Continue reading →

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Watching them die

Posted on October 21, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell  I should have been stunned by today’s (October 21, 2009)  New York Times report about a journalist’s attempt at “objectivity” in the face of calculated killing, but I wasn’t. Thirty or so years working in the news industry … Continue reading →

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