Modern medicine is pretty amazing. Here’s proof

Earlier: More Gannett Blog TV episodes on my YouTube channel

Warning: You may catch a cold from this video

Earlier: More Gannett Blog TV episodes on my YouTube channel.

Lumps o’ coal: Before Newseum cuts, big paychecks

Related: Economic headlines hit home as Newseum cuts staff 10%.

Earlier: The tortured history between Gannett and the Newseum’s non-profit developer, Freedom Forum. Plus, Charles Overby: First Amendment advocate by day, for-profit prison director by night!

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in McLean anymore!

Regarding a recent Gannett Blog TV episode aimed at my estimated 500 gay readers, plus assorted other Judy Garland fans who also love newspapers, Anonymous@9:34 p.m. commented yesterday:

“I am sure there are many people on this blog with different sexual persuasions, but many people do not choose to expose them. Why (don’t) you stick with the issue at hand and report on Gannett. I paid good money to you to support your efforts, and I am disappointed with the negative tone of your so-called reporting. Please Jim, clean it up and earn the reputation you deserve.”

Let’s put this in context, using my favorite tool: hard data! Including this one, I’ve published 1,887 posts since this blog’s start. Here are the number of those posts mentioning the word:

• Gannett: 1,204 (64% of all)
• My domestic partner, Sparky: 50 (2.6%)
• Gay or homosexual: 21 (1.1%)
• Judy Garland: 1 — and this is it! (0.05%)

Besides, what’s not to love about a guy named Sparky?!

[Photo: Garland as Dorothy Gale in 1939’s classic, The Wizard of Oz]

Mail: From Cincy, an increasingly rare commodity

Recent snail-mail from new subscribers included a bonus: a copy of The Cincinnati Enquirer, featuring a story that’s sadly familiar to many of us: “Faces of the newly jobless.”

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Our far-flung correspondents: A letter from Oz

There’s something a little, well, queer about a newspaper industry blog being edited by a 51-year-old gay man with a boyfriend named Sparky. Then again, maybe that explains a mysterious letter from a new subscriber who said they’re “a friend of Dorothy’s.” More in today’s Gannett Blog TV.

Gannett Blog hires an intern — and it’s Sparky!

Earlier: Who the heck is Sparky? Plus: More Gannett Blog TV episodes on my YouTube channel

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Traffic — and your host — reach dizzying heights

Earlier: More Gannett Blog TV episodes on my YouTube channel

S.O.S. signals: Comments that break my heart

Earlier: More Gannett Blog TV episodes on my YouTube channel

Poughkeepsie: Paper delivered, and note received

Earlier: Poughkeepsie to print in Westchester; 45 jobs lost. Plus: More episodes on my YouTube channel

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