Entries in Rod Boyce: The editor's desk for September, 2008

The rhythm of news

I’m apparently an old-timer. I started in this business on a manual typewriter. Granted, the newspaper I worked at in Southern California wasn’t one for blazing speed in keeping up with newsroom technology, but it was a manual typewriter nonetheless. With carbon paper. In an adobe building whose photo lab ...

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Palin and the media

Voters need to be given the information with which to make a sound judgment about a person’s fitness for office, especially when the office is one of the top spots in the nation. That’s certainly the case now with the historic Republican vice presidential nomination of Gov. Sarah Palin.

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Fun (?) with hyphens

I need vice presidential help.

Or do I need vice-presidential help?

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Me and Sarah

It’s been a busy three and half weeks since longtime Daily News-Miner Managing Editor Kelly Bostian left the job he loved for a job in Oklahoma, doing work that returns him to the type of outdoors journalism that readers of this newspaper came to love. Kelly, who was managing editor ...

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