Thursday, July 1, 2010
Media J.R. Lind Gets Fashion Nod From The Tennessean
Posted by Dana Kopp Franklin on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- One of J.R.'s favorite quotations: "Wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think" (Warren St. John)
Well, even The Tennessean has noticed. In today's paper, a wire story on bow ties from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune was amended with a a parenthetical phrase noting that "Nashville journalist J.R. Lind wore one during his three-episode stint on Jeopardy last month."
"Localizing," or inserting a local reference into a wire story from some other city, is an increasingly common practice in daily newspapers as they try to distract readers from the fact that a chunk of the content comes in a can from a news service. (Mea culpa: I "localized" hundreds of wire stories during my days in the daily trenches.)
We're just pleased that J.R. letting his bow-tie flag fly has become a vivid part of Nashville's style scene.
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If a daily wanted to actually localize wire stories, rather than just distract readers, how would they go about it, and how would you know the difference?
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What really surprised me here was that another Nashvillian - Arnold Myint - has been seen on television sporting the dickie bow in recent weeks and that the editors down 1100 didn't substitute his name for mine, given their reluctance to acknowledge that SouthComm publications and their employees even exist.
In any case, thanks for noticing, Life section!
Also, it's electrical tape on my glasses - not duct tape - but let's not quibble.
Wouldn't the greater tragedy be if the daily paid a writer to do a story on bowties?
