When a Single Story Has a Thousand Sides
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âRenditionâ tries to be thoughtful and respectful of complexity while at the same time honoring the imperatives of commercial entertainment.
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What's in a word? Maybe more than you think.
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There's only one problem with the storyline proclaiming that the country swung to the right on cultural issues in 2004. It is fiction.
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Elmore Leonard once said that the key to telling an exciting story was leaving out the parts that people skip. âQuxiotic/Honor de Cavalleriaâ is composed of little else.
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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There are parts that are simple. Like, say, recognizing that there's a problem. Then there are parts that are more complicated. Like, say, fixing the problem.
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They have their stories. Sad stories. Hard-luck stories. Backs-against-the-wall stories. It is those stories that make them so appreciative of their situation, so hard-working, so unselfish, and probably so underappreciated by others.
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Letâs not lose the plot. In defense of âbadâ words in childrenâs books.
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Most of American journalism pays at least lip service to the idea that news reporting should be impartial. But New York Cityâs tabloids do not always feel bound by that rule.
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Thereâs still a number of outstanding issues, some in the public domain. Itâs fairly obvious what they are. âWe will continue over the next day or so to bring those to conclusions.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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In Rupert Murdoch's world, not all journalism is created equal.
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It is an all-for-one, one-for-all game if ever one existed. The complexity, the speed, the violence all dictate that, and even those who practice the team concept fervently sometimes find it isn&#39;t good enough.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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While it's not always a  foolproof barometer, in most cases when you see six writing and  10 producing credits on a movie, you can anticipate a fair  amount of confusion about the story the film wants to tell.
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If lightning strikes once, then why not again? This irrational logic will tempt the victims of any senseless tragedy to believe in miracles, or so Portia Iversen assures us by way of explaining her long, determined slog toward a miracle of her own. Whether she actually found one or not, readers will have to decide for themselves.
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Writing a song that touches the hearts of millions is hard enough.