Losing Faith

My faith in The New Yorker magazine is gone.   I love The New Yorker – the articles as well as the cartoons. In fact, it’s the only magazine I get in the mail – thanks to a friend who gave me a gift subscription. I look forward to it arriving every week.   So…

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The N&O Misses One

Among my jobs at the N&O in the early 70s were copy editor and night city editor. I still read the paper with an editor’s eye.   So I just about swallowed my eyeshade when I read today’s N&O profile of Raleigh mayoral candidate Randall Williams.   How do you write that story without mentioning…

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