January 15th, 2010
Printer’s Devil: celebrating the good in journalism…
Favorite photo: You gotta love this photograph on the front page of the Sunday NY Times in which two lovely female anchors on Fox are just so taken with their boss, Roger Ailes. Draw your own conclusions as to the witty conversation Ailes was offering but the ladies certainly appear to be, well, over appreciative. A stark visual example of pleasing the boss or is it sucking up to said boss?! Please write your own caption!
Favorite headline: From the Daily News during the recent cold spell — “It’s not getting colder but New Yorkers may be getting wimpier.” Article goes on to state the this winter’s temperature are not even 2 degrees colder than last year.
Favorite columnist: For those of us who travel on business, it doesn’t get any better than Joe Sharkey’s weekly columns in the NY Times. He represents the everyman among us, questioning the stupid new TSA rules on flying and lending a common sense approach to the most frustrating travel experiences. This recent column is about a TSA employee checking under his pet parrot’s wings!!
Best column to get a quick response: NY Times columnist Jim Dwyer takes retailer H & M to task for shredding perfectly good clothing that could go to New Yorkers in need. The next day, the store promises not to do that anymore.
Best obit: NY Times writer Margalit Fox obit on Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby. Full of fascinating detail including that Gumby’s career was resurrected by the caricature Eddie Murphy did of an angry, swearing Gumby on Saturday Night Live. Life is strange.
Best TV piece: On Sunday morning, I loved the gentle profile of 94-year-old Chuck Williams who founded Williams-Sonoma by correspondent Martha Tiechner.