Hey --
Sunday, Sunday.
Ay-yi-yi.
Along with Dallas, the following worked on this edition:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.
And what did we come up with?
Truest statement of the week -- Tina Richards. When we all read this quoted in Tuesday's snapshot, we knew Tina Richards had nailed it.
Truest statement of the week II -- Dennis Loo also had garnered a truest for obvious reasons.
Editorial: The Cult of St. Barack -- This was a working title and it doesn't really work as a headline to this, which I (Jim) just noticed. I picked it and wasn't paying attention. We had two other articles this would have gone with if we'd been able to make them presentable. Didn't happen. This was an awful writing edition.
TV: Pull the plug and rejoice -- The easiest piece may have been this one by Ava and C.I. If not, it just seemed easy to the rest of us because we didn't have to do anything except enjoy it after it was written.
TV: Bill Moyers Locker Room -- Did Ava and C.I. have anything else? Nothing was working this edition and if they had anything else and could write about it . . . They came back with this.
The Political Whoring of Naomi Wolf -- Accepting that we would never write the conclusion to this which would make all of us happy allowed this to move from the scraps pile into 'publishable.' Which is a good thing because everyone worked on this and it was one of the few pieces that made it.
Steven D. Green roundtable -- The edition had crashed and burned. We asked everyone for 10 more minutes to do a quick roundtable. Our story on last week's hearing just would not come together and we really needed some piece on this topic.
The Shirely goes to . . . -- I had an idea for two short pieces and Dona told me, "You can't stand that we won't have 14. Just get over it. We're all tired and ready to go to bed." I was tossing extras because we barely had anything. C.I. and Ty proposed that if we do any short feature we needed to do something to note Evan Bright's strong reporting of the trial.
Where is the love? -- This should have run last week. This is the piece that Isaiah joined us to work on and then it didn't even go up, after he was up the entire night working with us.
Network news coverage of the shooting -- Jess oversaw this piece in the final moments of the edition.
Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Betty, Kat, Marcia, Ruth, Cedric, Wally, Stan and Rebecca wrote this and picked out the highlights unless otherwise noted.
And that's it. That's all we got. We'll see you next weekend.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.