As we can now all see, Mary Eaton has posted again about Jim Roy, the local man who has started the new paper - sorry, journal - in town, The Newburyport Liberator.
Mary does not allow comments on her blog, but you all should feel free to comment on here.
So far I've read that City Councillor Ed Cameron liked the paper (mostly since he wasn't mentioned), and I've heard from another person who is offended that Roy took the name so associated with a more famed Newburyport native, abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison.
The Liberator was the name of Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper. Perhaps Jim Roy noted the words in the first issue of Garrison's Liberator, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD," in his own first issue.
Perhaps I should pick one up. I was, after all, a few hundred posts ago, advocating (here) for another newspaper in town.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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8 comments:
Wouldn't it be more environmentally sound if he simply invited his friends over once a month for an open waterfront circle jerk ?
Oh, Bubba, whatever can you mean by that??
Gillian,
Garrison's Liberator name was borrowed once before Jim Roy decided to use it. It was a name of one of the journals Bossy Gillis published after the Asbestos. I believe there were four different incarnations for Bossy's papers. Another name was the Blitzkreig.
Best,
Tom
What do I mean ???
1) Why waste the paper when he can just have his friends over ? I'm sure his subscription base and group of friends are about the same size.
2) A "Circle Jerk" is a pompous, self-congratulatory discussion where little to no progress is made.
Oh, my understanding is that a "circle jerk" was a group of young men sitting in a circle, ummmm, doing that other word.
Well, it can mean "that" too, but I meant the former.
Thanks for clearing that up.
From Bossy's Liberator
"Stupor Stores" are the latest things in sweat shops...all erection of "Stupor Stores" by "Chain-Gang Corporations" have ever meant to any ocmmunity are elimination of jobs, ruination of the neighborhood and creation of a price-jacking monopoly."
From Jean Doyle's book.
See, there are no original ideas out there. Bossy hated chains too.
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