Comments on: Featuretron3000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/10/31/featuretron3000/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Barry http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/10/31/featuretron3000/comment-page-1/#comment-3213 Barry Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:25:05 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=2049#comment-3213 "Human, all too human. Reconstruct for yourself the forced segue into Reid's own battles in the Senate, where poor David is only slightly larger than Goliath. " Please note that (a) Senate rules privilege the minority, and that (b) the current political situation means that that minority can block things, leaving Bush with no check or balance. It ain't Senate majority vs minority; it's Senate majority vs minority + president. “Human, all too human. Reconstruct for yourself the forced segue into Reid’s own battles in the Senate, where poor David is only slightly larger than Goliath. ”

Please note that (a) Senate rules privilege the minority, and that (b) the current political situation means that that minority can block things, leaving Bush with no check or balance.

It ain’t Senate majority vs minority; it’s Senate majority vs minority + president.

]]> By: Kevin O'Reilly http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/10/31/featuretron3000/comment-page-1/#comment-3212 Kevin O'Reilly Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:43:44 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=2049#comment-3212 The journo-tic I absolutely cannot, cannot, cannot stand is the celebrity profile/interviewer where the writer spends paragraphs describing how nervous she is to meet the person for lunch, then what the celeb wore, what they ate, how they ate it, etc. -- details that add zero to the story. Here's a good profile that uses such descriptions to make a point: http://tinyurl.com/28vec6 The journo-tic I absolutely cannot, cannot, cannot stand is the celebrity profile/interviewer where the writer spends paragraphs describing how nervous she is to meet the person for lunch, then what the celeb wore, what they ate, how they ate it, etc. — details that add zero to the story.

Here’s a good profile that uses such descriptions to make a point:

http://tinyurl.com/28vec6

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