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Free Press to deliver NY Times

Posted on March 24, 2013 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Note to newspaper publishers: Can’t make money on your own news product? Peddle somebody else’s. A note in today’s (March 24, 2013) New York Times states: “Starting on Monday April 1st we will no longer be your … Continue reading →

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CABs, me and The NY Times

Posted on February 8, 2013 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell If you get a mention in The New York Times, be grateful. Even if it’s baloney. Remember what P.T. Barnum said about not caring what the papers said about him as long as they spelled his name … Continue reading →

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JOTR makes The Times

Posted on September 2, 2012 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell About the time somebody hacked joelontheroad on August 17, New York Times business columnist Floyd Norris wrote about Capital Appreciation Bonds in California. Why, he even credited me, in kind of a backhanded way, with being first … Continue reading →

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MSNBC’s invisible hand

Posted on November 9, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Did you wonder, maybe, why I’ve been beating on New York Times writers for letting the invisible hand of Times company policy guide their printed musings about Keith Olbermann’s suspension by MSNBC? So what? For the Times … Continue reading →

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David Carr, impartiality and a Times ethics policy

Posted on November 8, 2010 by hro50ta1

The sidelines, which is where American journalism and news used to live, have become a far less interesting place. Why merely annotate events when you can tilt the playing field? — David Carr, New York Times, November 8, 2010 By … Continue reading →

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Leave the renmimbi alone!

Posted on March 15, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell If you’d asked me a couple months ago to name the unit of Chinese currency, I’d have drawn a blank. It was all a big yuan. As near as I can tell, “renmimbi” and “yuan”can be used … 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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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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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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Making money at the Times

Posted on May 25, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Thanks to Clark Hoyt’s New York Times Public Editor column of May 24, 2009, I now know how the other half makes out. Hoyt informs us that in a typical year, “star columnist” Thomas Friedman collects 75 … Continue reading →

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