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An item in the Palm Beach Post on the launch of the “coffee party” (a weak imitation of the Tea Party movement) inspired me to rant passionately about the Cox newspaper chain, which owns the Post as well as my hometown paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That prompted this comment on Twitter:
Scarlett156 @rsmccain Why don’t you REALLY TELL US how you feel about the Palm Beach Post, Mr McCain!?? XD!!! #lol http://trunc.it/6awyp
To which I replied:
@Scarlett156 I’ve never forgiven the Cox Newspapers for replacing Lewis Grizzard with the unspeakably wretched Rheta Grimsley Johnson.
That catastrophe occurred in 1994, a date which historians will surely mark as beginning the final death-spiral of the American newspaper industry. And I shall never forget it nor can I ever forgive it.
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JohnD| 3.14.10 @ 2:30PM
McCain, the real reason newspapers are in a death spiral is that they don't have you writing a daily column. You and Mark Steyn are the most entertaining and inciteful journalists to read, yet the bankrupt broadsheets insist on spoon feeding us Friedman, Krugmans, Broder, and Millbank. I'll keep my 50 cents every day until they wise up, if they ever do.
Jim Woodward| 3.14.10 @ 2:47PM
Ahh! Lewis Grizzard! May he RIP.
Still pull out one my several audio books and give a listen every once and a while. Have a few print books too. Master story teller. I'm a little vague on this, but I believe he is the only columnist to have ever been given his entire column space -blank- when his beloved Bulldogs lost a Championship game. I believe the title was "I just can't" in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Perhaps Mr. McCain can help me here.
danny| 3.14.10 @ 3:33PM
john d, i doubt they ever will. by the way, where in the world do you buy a paper for fifty cents nowdays?
Unsatisfied| 3.15.10 @ 11:55AM
GHD products are total trash. Do NOT buy them.
tnxplant| 3.15.10 @ 8:35AM
Favorite LG quote (from his mama) - "If you can't be good, be sweet."
Robert Jensen| 3.15.10 @ 12:45PM
Of course, the reason they replace Lewis Grizzard's column was the fact that he'd passed away in March 1994....
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What_A_Dog_Really_Needs | Adopting A Dog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
John| 4.26.10 @ 10:33AM
I loved Lewis Grizzard. However, I think Rheta Grimsley Johnson also ranks with the best southern writers ever as does Rick Bragg. Her latest book is a masterpiece.