<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Efrem:
My first editor's word for what he wanted from me was "provocative." (At the time I was writing opinion columns, known in the trade as "op-ed" because they usually run on the page opposite the editorial page.)
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With 20+ years in the industry, I find it amazing so many FTers are journalists.
Provocative is great for Opinions (what we now call our op-ed, since op-ed is usually letters} but not for news. Unfortunately, I frequently hear our reporters setting out to "prove" something. Everybody has their own point of view. Good grief, we ran a puff piece in Business about an attorney who's firm is behind every class action suit ever filed. I personally would have run an article explaining how he's gotten rich at the expense of shareholders, like moi, in little companies that aren't really doing anything wrong.
Never had trouble redeeming miles, AA, Southwest, United. With FewMiles' advice I pulled off a trip to Paris gaining miles and status that my editor said sounded illegal. Not. But it was great fun.
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lili
shopping her way to first class