this stuff makes me so glad to be colleagues with so many dedicated local journalists + community media journalists

2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.

But none of the preachers reported him to the police.

Honestly, go to speed dating or something similar. Or add a profile note like, “I prefer to get to know people in person; let’s grab coffee or go to a hockey game.” A bunch of people on the apps don’t leave the house, and all of the apps have gotten increasingly hard to use.

That does feel very relevant.

“I was but a lad in the late 1990s…”

Same. But a bit later than that.

Had a brief existential crisis about the phrase “the late 1900s.”

I only took a handful of journalism night classes, and those were all very “pyramid structure,” etc.

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Did they ever? (I read Barthes, but didn’t go to j school…)

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