Comments on: UA notebook: Cats defenseless against top scorers

By: Marketing Boise

Marketing Boise — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:43:28 +0000

Teddy Bruschi is the classiest football player to ever be in the NFL. As a long time Patriots fan I have watched his on and off field actions. Wildcat fans should be proud… overcoming his stroke, winning super bowls and representing himself and every organization he played for with class!

By: Anthony Gimino

Anthony Gimino — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:55:10 +0000

No worries. I have been entertained by the back and forth.

By: Mark B. Evans

Mark B. Evans — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:26:55 +0000

Sorry for getting off topic, AG.

By: Mark B. Evans

Mark B. Evans — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:27:55 +0000

You need to read “If No News, Send Rumors: Anecdotes of American Journalism,” by Stephen Bates.
The title is taken from the direction the publisher of the Chicago Times sent to one of his reporters during the Civil War.

By: Ferraribubba

Ferraribubba — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:40 +0000

Hey Mark: I’m Shocked and saddened that a true journalist like yourself would say, “Copper, aluminum, what’s the difference?”
Are you sure that you didn’t put in a stint with Hearst, like me, where that kind of loose reporting is the norm?
Back in the day, when you were on deadline and some facts weren’t available, all liquior clerks that were robbed and shot were 42 years of age and their wives at the hospital bedsides were all named Marge or Ethel. Take yer pick. It was just easier that way.
But then again, we were mere reporters, working on deadline in the Big City, not like you guys are today, all going for that Pulitizer Prize, fame and fortune.
Yer old newspaper hack pal, Ferrari Bubba

By: Mark B. Evans

Mark B. Evans — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:40:35 +0000

Copper, aluminum, what’s the difference? It’s direct to plate printing, is the point.

By: Ferraribubba

Ferraribubba — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:34:14 +0000

Hey Mark: Wake up and smell the roses, my man! Copper plates went out with Ben Franklin.
Offset lithography is the printing technology which is used by TNI to print the Arizonna Daily Star, and it uses aluminum plates.
Not a single Citizen was ever printed using copper in 138 years.
Downtown, TNI had old fashioned letterpresses that used lead plates, and when y’all moved to your present site at Park & Irvington, your new Goss offset presses (both of them) used aluminum from day 1.
Just ask John Lundgren, the TNI pressroom manager.
Wayne Bean, Vic Brierly, and I taught him everything he knows. Right John?
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

By: Mark B. Evans

Mark B. Evans — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:07:12 +0000

I was born in 1966. No scabs here (not that I’d be averse to crossing a picket line if it was in my best interest to do so).
And technology killed the typography union. News pages print direct to copper plates now, no hot lead needed (or hot wax, either).
There’s an old type setting machine in the lobby of the now abandoned Citizen newsroom, a monument to a historical anachronism.

By: Ferraribubba

Ferraribubba — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:22:06 +0000

Hey Mark: Don’t look now, but the printers at TNI went out on strike in 1966, and technically, picket line or no picket line, anybody who entered the building after that to help produce either the ADS, or our beloved Tucson Citizen has helped. in their own small way, destroy the Tucson Local of the International Typographical Union.
I guess that makes us all scabs to a certain degree, doesn’t it?
Anxiously awaiting your answer, yer Scab pal, Ferrari Bubba

By: Mark B. Evans

Mark B. Evans — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:55:52 +0000

I didn’t know Stoops was a scab. Huh. Interesting.