AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
Ken Fuller |
Whenever I read something in the press to which I might respond in the future, this outsider will copy and paste the piece, saving it in my “Articles” file. (Is this a suicidal anomaly — a newspaper columnist who only reads newspapers on the Internet?) If the column is written fairly soon, it may have to take its place in a queue, behind pieces already awaiting the weekly e-mail to the Tribune. (And what a comfortable feeling it is to have several columns in reserve!)
Sometimes, a copied and pasted piece will, frankly, be forgotten, and by the time I remember it the topic will have become outdated. Then there is the odd occasion when I am struck by something another columnist has written but am unsure precisely what it’s saying to me. On these occasions — and this is one of them — the piece may lay in the file for a few weeks before I take another look at it.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100921com5.html
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