Having the Final Say

The photo above is of how someone got the last word. The Last Word can be fun, and think of all the last words that have yet to be discovered.

I find it very interesting how many people are critical of the Daily Astorian. This is our five-day a week daily news paper. They are accused of bad writing, bad editing, self serving editorials, favoring certain people, giving no credence to others. If you have a honeymoon with the paper you can do well with their coverage, but when that honeymoon is over, it’s over and you will pay.

A few years ago someone submitted a poem, which was printed and all the copies were distributed before someone found a problem. The problem was that if you lined up the first letter of each line it spelled “Forrester Sucks.” (He is the owner and managing editor). Heads must have rolled on that day. A poet got the last word over a journalist. This is so rare. I wonder if it is now someone’s job to look over submitted copy to make sure this doesn’t happen again.