On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:


They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full
reporter.

I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop
bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here.


I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort
on the writing of posts for this pigpen.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:21:04 -0600 (MDT), justan wrote:

Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote:

Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person.

I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching
coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who
he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might
remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much
more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here?


Heheheh. What a little mind you have.

You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box.



That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a
full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short
indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as
a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story
writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was
done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and
marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was
recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor
because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and
suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his
absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met
interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards.

I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of
effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis
posters like you.


I'm sure Greg is impressed. However you failed to offer proof that
this story is true. We've caught you in so many lies. Is this
another one?

I would put money on it.

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote:

Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person.

I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching
coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who
he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might
remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much
more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here?


Heheheh. What a little mind you have.

You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box.



That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a
full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short
indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as
a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story
writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was
done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and
marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was
recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor
because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and
suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his
absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met
interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards.

I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of
effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis
posters like you.


They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full
reporter.


Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to
learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities,
such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at
least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for
the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a
journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even
though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my
majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the
paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night
editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that
summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining
college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to
12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which,
for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was,
the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star.

Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever
standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the
paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of
them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk,
typewriter, and, of course, spittoon.

Here's a picture of The Star building...

http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k

The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been
moved to another facility.


You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book,
does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a
lot higher than yours.

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:


They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full
reporter.

I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop
bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here.


I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort
on the writing of posts for this pigpen.


So, proof you are intellectually lazy.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:01:20 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop
bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here.


I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort
on the writing of posts for this pigpen.

Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for the supposed word smith you
profess to be.
Real writers write. bull****ters bull ****.

On 8/21/17 11:44 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:01:20 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop
bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here.


I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort
on the writing of posts for this pigpen.

Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for the supposed word smith you
profess to be.
Real writers write. bull****ters bull ****.



What it it *sounds like* to you is of no concern to me. As I have stated
many times, I am not interested in your whataboutery or whataboutitis,
nor in your direct and indirect support for extreme right-wingery, or
the fact you apparently believe there are *nice* Nazis or KKK'ers.

Sadly, you are the best of the right-wing bunch in here, when it comes
to any sort of political or current events discussion.

On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote:

Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person.

I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching
coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who
he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might
remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much
more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here?


Heheheh. What a little mind you have.

You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box.



That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a
full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short
indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as
a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story
writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was
done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and
marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was
recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor
because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and
suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his
absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met
interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards.

I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of
effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis
posters like you.


They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full
reporter.


Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to
learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities,
such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at
least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for
the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a
journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even
though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my
majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the
paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night
editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that
summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining
college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to
12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which,
for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was,
the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star.

Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever
standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the
paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of
them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk,
typewriter, and, of course, spittoon.

Here's a picture of The Star building...

http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k

The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been
moved to another facility.


You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book,
does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a
lot higher than yours.



The ability to be nosy, to be able to research, and the ability to write
are the usual requirements for a new reporter. A journalism degree is
neither required nor necessary. The first day on my job at The Star, the
day city editor told me to "forget anything you learned at
J-school...we'll teach you our way." Fortunately, I had taken only a
couple of courses at journalism school, one of which, typography, was of
no use at the paper, but useful later in life, so there was little to
forget. I took the J-school courses to be closer to my sweetie at the
time, a delicious redhead who did graduate from j-school.

What was that saying at the engineering school...oh, year... "Yesterday,
I couldn't spell engineer, but today I are one."

On 8/21/17 9:28 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 1:47 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:


They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full
reporter.

I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop
bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here.


I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort
on the writing of posts for this pigpen.


So, proof you are intellectually lazy.



No, Bilious, it isn't "proof" of anything like that.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:37:09 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/21/17 11:44 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:01:20 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop
bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here.


I've stated this many times: I see no reason to waste any time or effort
on the writing of posts for this pigpen.

Sounds like a pretty lame excuse for the supposed word smith you
profess to be.
Real writers write. bull****ters bull ****.



What it it *sounds like* to you is of no concern to me. As I have stated
many times, I am not interested in your whataboutery or whataboutitis,
nor in your direct and indirect support for extreme right-wingery, or
the fact you apparently believe there are *nice* Nazis or KKK'ers.

Sadly, you are the best of the right-wing bunch in here, when it comes
to any sort of political or current events discussion.

I just said the racists were better behaved in Charlottesville than
the BLM/antifa people and that is easily seen, simply by what did not
happen. Hundreds of containers of kerosene, lit and none landed in a
car window or in a store front. In spite of a lot of talk about
assault weapons, not a shot was fired. On the other hand I doubt a
single club carried by antifa got home without blood on it.

BTW now antifa and BLM are fighting with each other. These are just
violent thugs and the real criminals here.

I read an article by a Harvard political science professor yesterday
that called out BLM/antifa as being the un american force here. As
much as we can hate the messenger and even the message the nazis
followed the rules, got a permit to march and were not violent until
they were attacked by antifa for exercising their 1st amendment
rights.
The people of Boston did it right the other day. They came out and
PEACEFULLY protested the nazis, drowning out their message without
resorting to violence.

As long as you defend BLM and antifa you are the brown shirt here.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:28:00 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote:

Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person.

I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching
coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who
he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might
remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much
more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here?


Heheheh. What a little mind you have.

You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box.



That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a
full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short
indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as
a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story
writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was
done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and
marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was
recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor
because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and
suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his
absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met
interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards.

I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of
effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis
posters like you.


They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full
reporter.


Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to
learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities,
such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at
least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for
the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a
journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even
though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my
majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the
paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night
editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that
summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining
college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to
12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which,
for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was,
the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star.

Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever
standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the
paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of
them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk,
typewriter, and, of course, spittoon.

Here's a picture of The Star building...

http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k

The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been
moved to another facility.


You even admit you did not have a journalism degree. As to a style book,
does not make a reporter. As to professional qualifications, mine were a
lot higher than yours.

If, in fact, Harry had had any of his 'works' published, as he claims, you can bet your ass he'd
have copies of them. And if he had copies of them, you can bet your ass he'd have photographed them
and shown them to us hundreds of times.

He's a liar. Amen.