Re: (NBC) Ending Terrorism

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JoeSchwind) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> Right. The newspaper in Syracuse printed a 3000 word letter to the
> editor by an unemployed caddy. 

The newspaper identified what he is: a freelance writer and a nonviolence 
trainer, which sounds like he's a trust fund kid who for some reason just 
doesn't like to spend his life traveling to rock concerts.

> If they paid for the piece, then at least for that day he was hired by
> the newspaper. Sheesh, next they'll be arguing over the meaning of the
> word "is". 

You were making a point based on the guy having a job on a "major US 
newspaper" and he doesn't.  

It isn't even clear that they paid him a dime for his opinion piece; a lot 
of newspapers have a "My Turn" type of slot on the Op-Ed page and they 
generally don't pay for those pieces, and a reasonable guess is that his 
article fell into that category.

Your theory that all it takes to get a job on a newspaper is to be "anti-
American enough" is entertaining, but you haven't quite nailed it down.

HP