{"id":205,"date":"2007-10-15T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-10-15T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:49:00","slug":"all-news-thats-fit-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/all-news-thats-fit-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"All the News That&#8217;s Fit to Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/15\/business\/media\/15publica.html?ex=1350187200&amp;en=741fee61738832e2&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">nice story on my husband&#8217;s new project<\/a>. Here are two paragraphs from the story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a group of investigative journalists who will give away their work to media outlets. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> The nonprofit group, called Pro Publica, will pitch each project to a newspaper or magazine (and occasionally to other media) where the group hopes the work will make the strongest impression. The plan is to do long-term projects, uncovering misdeeds in government, business and organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, here is a totally random picture of my husband and me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RxOKzBfzZBI\/AAAAAAAAA_I\/lEBzAAC0vxQ\/s320\/vintage_oscar.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121589810430174226\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In 2004<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/15\/business\/media\/15publica.html?ex=1350187200&amp;en=741fee61738832e2&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other good stories on his Pro Publica project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003658575\">Editor &amp; Publisher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/fishbowlny\/the_state_of_journalism\/richard_behar_there_is_a_dire_need_for_pro_publica_69036.asp\">mediabistro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gjB27F0bDD8qtfbQavxy-w7dSiDQD8S9POOG0\">Associated Press<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And remember, children, you&#8217;re not truly important until some paranoid asshats hate you before you&#8217;ve even done anything. I like how this blog perceives the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/site\/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH\/b.855229\/k.63D6\/Macarthur_Foundation_Home.htm\">Macarthur Foundation<\/a> (the &#8220;genius grant&#8221; group) as a scary leftist organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/how_to_advance_the_left_taxfre.html\">American Thinker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of the New York Times, no one there has responded to the extremely stern email I sent them them last week after they mentioned William the Conquerer in a story about &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/07\/magazine\/07squirrels-t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">squirrels<\/a>. I know! Why did they even have to go there?!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Squirrels\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RxE0sBfzY1I\/AAAAAAAAA9o\/QpHESSBuKj4\/s320\/squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120932182217679698\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know nuttin&#8217; about history.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>This squirrel story insulted one of my favorite queens, Isabella, by writing her out of history.  I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/thursday-book-club-isabella-she-wolf.html\">posted about her<\/a> because I designed a necklace in her honor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=181\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RxE2bhfzY3I\/AAAAAAAAA94\/KBsuBMu-aY8\/s200\/Isabella_Wolf_Gold_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120934097773093746\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Isabella Necklace \u00a9 Wendy Brandes 2007-2008<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squaremoose.com\/\">SquareMoose<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here is my letter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;\" >Dear Editor,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;\" ><br \/>It is incorrect to say that William the Conqueror was &#8220;the last successful invader of England&#8221; in 1066 (Squirrel Wars, October 7), although that is the conventional wisdom. Isabella of France, the estranged wife of Edward II of England, and Roger Mortimer successfully invaded England with a small army in 1326.  They forced Edward II to abdicate the following year and ruled the country for three years as co-regents for Edward III, the son of Isabella and Edward II. When Edward III attained his majority in 1330, he overthrew the regency and executed Mortimer.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;\" >While Isabella was connected to England through her marriage and Mortimer was an English-born noble, the two of them met in France, obtained assistance from Count William of Hainault, and formed an army largely composed of Flemish, German and Bohemian mercenaries (see Alison Weir&#8217;s book Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England). This was clearly an invasion, not a civil uprising.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>I knew you&#8217;d all be as outraged as I was. Seriously, what is the ish? Why doesn&#8217;t Isabella ever get any credit? Is it sexism? Or did William the Conquerer hire a superhot PR firm?  Feel free to write to magazine@nytimes.com and back me up. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll try to cheer myself up with a humorous history book.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1066-All-That-Memorable-Comprising\/dp\/0413775275\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-9667944-8636621?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1192308653&amp;sr=8-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RxEz5xfzY0I\/AAAAAAAAA9g\/__aThrXVOME\/s320\/1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120931318929253186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Maybe it should be named &#8220;1066 and All That Sexism&#8221;!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a nice story on my husband&#8217;s new project. Here are two paragraphs from the story. Paul E. 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