I hear you loud and clear. I spent 30+ years on dailies (Chi Sun-Times,
Miami Herald, Seattle Times, Washington Times), but it wasn't 'til after I
retired and spent the last six-years writing features for a country weekly,
that I really started to enjoy myself. Paper folded in January... and I do
miss it.
Rick
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Thanx! Though I never considered newspapering a real job. It was fun for a
> while, and then it started to wear me down. I think there's something
> relentlessly egotistical about it. Am I on Page One? Do I get a byline? Did
> I cause someone to lose sleep? Also a very negative profession. Always
> beating the drum about another sabertooth out there somewhere. Yeah, I know,
> free press and free society and all. Used to tell people a free press was
> our salvation and the bane of our existence.
>
> Long story, but I'm glad to be shed of it. Been out of it longer than I was
> in it, and haven't had a day's regret.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>
> > Jeez Bob... I never knew that you had held a real job. ;o)
> >
> > Rick... another old newspaperguy.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> > chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I know you've found your new home and life's calling but, reading your
> >> personal introduction, I see that the newspapers (all of them) are still
> >> in desperate need of you. :-)
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/9/2011 2:48 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> >>> I love my iPhone.
> >>>
> >>> Here's a self-portrait, taken with iPhone and my new Kindle. The hand
> not
> >> shown is holding the phone.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.bobwhitmire.com/about.html
> >>
>
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