Not the same sort of situation, but the same general ethical calculus. It really hurt Jackson's campaign for the presidency - as it probably should have. Eventually, Coleman and his editors decided this had to be revealed. Probably the best example of a newspaper making the choice to violate the agreement also involved The Post: Jesse Jackson in 1984 calling New York "Hymietown." He had said it, understood to be off the record, with Milton Coleman, a black reporter at the Post. You cannot protect yourself by using background to hide an important truth then you are abusing the agreement. SOME things violate the rules of "background." You can't go on background and then reveal that Trump DID shoot a man on Fifth Avenue. Was it agreed to, unambiguously? No idea.īut there is a second issue. If you agree to it in advance, you generally stick to it, period. On the one hand, "background" is generally sacrosanct. The one thing I know is that The Post took this decision, to publish it, very seriously, because I know The Post. I don't know what the terms of that conversation were. This is about the staffer who lost her job after (apparently) drunk blurting to reporters about the dysfunction of the Trump family. And once you accept that, and put it behind you, I believe his second poem was better than mine, for two reasons: "Ivanka" is funny, and Tom outsmarted me in choosing "driver" to be the rhyming word and not "pope," which forced an awkward final two lines in my poem. A case can be made - and I will generously but legitimately make it here - that tom was DELIBERATELY subverting the form by being technically crappy. You can do it, but it hurts the ears and the brain. He will blithely rhyme Ivanka with Sanka, which is like rhyming Pillow with silly. He will ignore the fact that an "engineer" is not a "conductor," and that "absurdum reductor" is not an actual expression, but a bastardized version of the real Latin, for use in this contest alone. He will blithely rhyme "hamma" with "'nana." He will be so pleased with this that he will then blithely go on to use that odd infant word "''nana" again in the same poem, and rhyme it with "banana," essentially rhyming a word with itself. He is not, however, a nationally acclaimed enlightened genius poet, as I am. Feel free to skip it because you hate poetry! The correct answer - the ONLY correct answer - to the poll is that I won the first and Tom won the second. I promise to take this up with my bosses and, after careful consideration, ignore you all. Chat starts at noon sharp.įirst, I hereby thank the many of you who have thundered out your general contempt for poetry in general, doggerel in specific, and MY doggerel in micro-specific. There is a correct answer, and I will reveal it pretty soon. Ethnic cleansing was a policy, with more than a million Poles forcibly evicted from their homes, replaced by ethnic Germans.Ĭongratulations, Polish people, on this fine anniversary! In the ensuing six years, Poland would lose a sixth of its population, many to executions. Sunday was the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by the Nazis. The best news development of the week, in case you missed it, was what our president said when asked by a reporter on Sunday "Do you have a message for Poland on the anniversary of the second world war?" Me, Gene Weingarten, hiding under the bed: ![]() Sometimes a development on Twitter is so disturbing it requires instant attention.
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