Friday, December 01, 2006

To quote the great Bob Cole... It's PULL-IT-ZER!

You know the times are a-changing when the Pulitzers are now going to allow solely online submissions for certain categories. In a way, it's sad for the print world. A bastion of print-only prejudice is starting to crumble. I'm sure old-school newspaper men and women are sighing and longing for times long ago before this mass that is the Internet erupted. My grandfather was a newspaper man; he died long before the Internet became mainstream, but in a way, I can feel his disapproval at the diminishing print world. He was a great writer; even posthumously, he has inspired me so. I nearly went to Bowdoin for college because he took classes there and got so tremendously far. However, I would have to take him on in this field. I'm all for online news and I think it adds to the essence of expediency. Though the romance of the antiquated typewriter and flip-pad is alluring, I'll keep my keyboard and PocketPC. I love the old ways, but I'm embracing their modern cousins just as readily.

Pulitzer Rules Will Allow More Multimedia Material in Entries
[ From Editor and Publisher online ]

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