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Comments about: I will pray for Ed not to make mistake again A "Thanks," and All we've got to say on the matter, a confessional, and promise to do better, follows this letter. About: On911will pray for Ed not to make mistake again To ColumbiaMagazine.com: I agree with Alice Wheeler on the 9-11.We don't need reminders postedeverywhere of the tragedy that happened that day. We all remember whathappened and, no, it will never be forgotten. That was a terrible dayin our lives. It made history and will be told for generations tocome. I am sorry that Mrs. Harvey felt the way she did that nothingwas posted about it on Columbia Magazine, but I have to defend Ed onthis one. He does a great job reporting news as he gets it and posting things ashe receives them from US the readers of ColumbiaMagazine.com. I amsure every American thought of all the lives lost, all the family andfriends left behind, maybe said a prayer in silence or maybe spoke toa friend that day about the tragic day that changed America forever.But I am sure it was NOT forgotten. Perhaps next year someone willthink to write a poem or send in a request for an article on 9-11, butrest assured that day was not forgotten. s/Diana Long Thanks. We appreciate it:There was so much else we wanted to post that day, including a reference to 9-11. Thanks for the way you said what you did. Here's all we have to say on the subject: The truth is that I thought the 9-11 thing was being adequately covered by national media and, that day, I was somewhat overwhelmed by everything happening here in Greater Columbia. But saying one is overworked is not permitted in our organization. And explaining isn't something we like or do very well. What we do, we do. What we don't do, well somebody else ought to have thought of it. I was trained by the greatest journalist Adair County ever had, the late Pete Walker, who didn't think there was much interest in explaining how the news gathering and dissemination happened. It just did. And people read his newspapers like they have at no other time in the history of Adair County. He had two sayings. 1) Don't tell us about the labor pains, just show us the baby, and 2) Nobody is interested in the viscera of a newspaper. He had one more saying about journalism. It was on taking pictures, at which he was a master, taking award winning photographs with the $19.95 Polaroid Swingers the company issued to everyone. He took far superior photos with a Swinger than our competition did with $20,000 Hasselblad outfits or Graflex 4 x 5 Speed Graphics. Walker retrained college graduate photographers from who came to work for us by giving them the company's photographic primer, WWNI Photography 101 in 30 seconds: There are three things you need to know: 1) Be outside. 2) Be up close. And 3) keep your ass to the sun. It's still good advice for those who think it's the camera, not the eyeballs behind it, which gets the picture. But that doesn't seem to pertain here. Some things J. Peterdick Walker (the "J" was for "Justice," he said) couldn't abide: Bores, ignoramuses, and self-righteous people. (He once told me, when I asked if a fellow had any vices, "No, but he's an effing bore," and added, "and I can't think of a worse vice than that.") And, oh yes, one more thing he couldn't abide: sugar in cornbread, the way Hoosiers make it, but that doesn't seem to pertain here, either. And pomposity. I forgot that. He couldn't abide pomposity. A particularly pompous (at least that day) church leader came by his Presidential Suite at 108 N. Reed Street one time and wanted to issue an ecclesiastical prior restraint on a story about a church squabble on Melson Ridge. We had no plans to run any story about the infighting, but Walker summoned me to his office to watch his diplomacy. The churchman and I sat on a couch in front of Mr. Walker, behind whom there hung a photo of the great editor, flashing the bird, with a caption which read, succinctly, "Our Founder." The preacher pretended not to see it. At least he didn't comment. "I do hope you'll think about the work of the church," the minister said. "Please don't print anything about Melson Ridge."He gave a pretty long monologue, even by Shavian standards and I don't recall it all. I remember that part of his plea was that "If we just had some corporation,, why, my, what great work the the church could do.""I understand perfectly," Walker said, "if we had more corporation we could be bigger than the Courier-Journal."We didn't get the cooperation to be the newspaper equivalent of the Vatican, and we didn't write the story, but we enjoyed the memory for a long time. A failing, I guess. Because that was usually how we ended each day. Not with a tally of how many page ads we sold, but with a thorough accounting of the incidents which made life in Columbia so special. All that stuff was in the back of my mind when I thought about a good defense for that letter citing the sin of omission about 9-11. Couldn't think of anything that would help the situation. I am still pretty bewildered as to what my posting Joe Hare's wonderful article on Lance Burton, the World's Great Magician, coming home to Adair County, had to do with not writing something about 9-11. I guess it ought to make us feel more important. But the idea that CM is responsible for all the news is a bit scary. It's like Hazel in Cannery Row being told he'll be President of the United States. Finally, we'll offer what a favorite relative said he always told the judge after coming before the bar on many occasions for post-Vietnam War service escapades, "Your honor, I'm going to do better." And it worked, he said. Some of the time. Thanks to everyone else for commenting, pro and con. We're going to do better. -EW This story was posted on 2008-09-15 01:54:26
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