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Here's a little low-content about tennis pros going GF:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/ ... D920110526
I just love how they feel compelled to rummage in the file cabinet for that last paragraph:
"The gluten-free diet is necessary for people who have celiac disease. It has been gaining in popularity among the general public, but doctors warn that people who eliminate gluten from their diet can also lose out on important nutrients."
They don't attribute that wisdom to any actual, named doctors... nor do they list those precious missing nutrients. (I realize they have no idea, but shouldn't they care?)
What's so great about these cereal grains - the incomplete protein? The missing vitamins? As an occasional writer, I cannot imagine finishing up a piece with a paragraph I coudn't explain, if someone asked, "like what?" or "what makes you say that?" It undoes all the work that goes before.
It's really starting to irritate me that the word 'gluten' seems to require publications to staple that paragraph in like a disclaimer, whether or not it means anything or relates to the context.
Hope that's not the start of a big ranting kinda day ;)
Love,
S
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Okay, I'll join your rant. I did a short stint on examiner.com as one of their writers. It was short because the basic requirements for an article were 500 words on a subject that related locally, and a properly-attributed picture for visual interest. Then, of course, marketing, because the more people who followed you, the more you would eventually be paid. So a writer would come up with an idea in their subject, research it, figure out how it related locally, if it was a national issue, find a photo, write 500 words, and market it, all for $25 an article. And that translates to how much per hour? And being limited to five articles a week meant to me that I would have been basically doing a full-time job for $600/month.
The 24-hour news cycle has done little good to the quality of reporting because the push to get it out there is constant, and of course, even when you are working for Reuters or whichever, you still have to market yourself to both keep your job and to advance. And there are plenty of others who are willing to walk right over the top of you in their fight to get to the top. It reminds me of the fish in the tank at a fish hatchery when you throw a handful of food in. And the plethora of options on where one can get one's news makes it (in my opinion) a losing battle for the really good writers, the ones who actually take the time to do it right.
The 24-hour news cycle has done little good to the quality of reporting because the push to get it out there is constant, and of course, even when you are working for Reuters or whichever, you still have to market yourself to both keep your job and to advance. And there are plenty of others who are willing to walk right over the top of you in their fight to get to the top. It reminds me of the fish in the tank at a fish hatchery when you throw a handful of food in. And the plethora of options on where one can get one's news makes it (in my opinion) a losing battle for the really good writers, the ones who actually take the time to do it right.
Marliss Bombardier
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Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
I agree that's a big part of the problem. The world is news-crazy - when anything happens anywhere in the world, we have been programmed, (by the media), to want to know all the details about it, RIGHT NOW, (and not an hour later, because by then it's no longer news, in the current environment.Marliss wrote:And the plethora of options on where one can get one's news makes it (in my opinion) a losing battle for the really good writers, the ones who actually take the time to do it right.
). As a result, we spend way too much time and money trying to discover even mundane details about trivial events that don't amount to a hill of beans, because everyone plays it up to the max, thus making those who are late-comers, virtual social outcasts. A prime example of that concept is twitter, and to some extent, facebook - those sites promote their own success, by turning everyone into an unpaid "newswriter". Why anyone would want to get their news from a site such as twitter, is beyond me, but apparently I'm the only out-of-touch curmudgeon in the world, who feels that way.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I don't even want to know what my best friend is up to via Twitter. I think that might be my second sign of advancing age... and my third is that I can't remember what the first one is, though I just noted it earlier today ;)
Most people can't express themselves well with an infinite number of characters available. That's the one good thing about Twitter, IMO - though if there's a second good thing about it, I can't imagine what it is - and it would be lost among the storm of total nonsense being tweeted at this very moment.
Rant done, for the moment...
Love,
Sara
Most people can't express themselves well with an infinite number of characters available. That's the one good thing about Twitter, IMO - though if there's a second good thing about it, I can't imagine what it is - and it would be lost among the storm of total nonsense being tweeted at this very moment.
Rant done, for the moment...
Love,
Sara