Re: stringer, Blogging and decent money

**F*@aol.com**

Betty, that phrase hit home. Short and twittery is a hard style to  learn. 
More accurately, one might say, writing in English is hard to UNlearn. 
Like anything else, it's interesting to track back and try to pinpoint  where 
such things began. Text messaging -- sorry, texting -- is an obvious  
influence on today's truncated prose. But did it begin with USA Today, where  
everything had to be reduced to a few phrases and hardly any stories were  permitted 
to jump to an inside page? Did the national attention span begin to  shrink 
when MTV begat vertigo-inducing jump-cut editing? Or were those just  symptoms 
of a trend we were ready for, primed for by the ever-increasing demands  on our 
eyes and ears?
The sentence is dead. Long live the bullet point. 

--  JF in snowbound Lanc. Co. PA . Snowing all night and the  first plow 
finally went by just a minute ago.

In a message dated 2/28/2009 8:54:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
BettyMackey@verizon.net writes:

Everything old must be rewritten in the short new twittery  style.

-- Betty Mackey

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