Re: Fw: garden columns

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

I already do what many of you suggest - bullet points, lists, info 
boxes, links, which have been included in the 500 word count. You are 
right, though, about having to strip any personality from the piece. 
I already pretty much limit myself to one topic.

In the last six months, I've spoken to more than 2,000 people at 
various events in the state, I'm pretty secure there. I have taken to 
posting some of my columns on my Indiana Living Green Web site, but 
not all of the columns fit that philosophy, although I am a natural 
gardener and that's what I write about...no 24D in my columns.

It's just distressing. The paper allows citizens to cover school 
board meetings, take photos at various events, etc., which gets run 
in the actual paper, not just posted on The Star's Web site. The 
press is the only profession mentioned in the Consitution, yet 
today's papers fritter away that right and responsiblity with no fact 
checking, balance or anything else. They are filling space and they 
don't have to pay anyone to do it.

Don't get me started.

jems

-- 
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, speaker, author, photographer
Region III Director Garden Writers Association
Phone: (317) 251.3261
Fax: (317) 251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net
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