The New Yorker, December 22, 1962 P. 24 Note discovered on the desk of a Times editor just before the presses shut down: Boss: If we get strike, I'd be awfully grateful if you'd water my violets: Monday.
By H. L. Katzander and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, December 22, 1962 P. 24 Note discovered on the desk of a Times editor just before the presses shut down: Boss: If we get strike, I'd be awfully grateful if you'd water my violets: Monday.
Some staffers set up shop at The Courier, an hour's drive away in Houma, Louisiana, and cranked out the first print edition since the Times-Picayune's presses shut down three days earlier.
Each press is shut down for one eight-hour shift each week, when press staff climb inside to remove ink buildup and wipe down crucial parts.
When Gov. Gray Davis of California signed legislation regulating automotive greenhouse gas emissions, the phone lines in his office lit up and the press office shut down.
Moyes, whose press secretary shut down any questions about the imminent signing of Mata, did not look as distraught as he might have been, when he gave his press conference.
He left corpses on street corners to rot, burned down houses, sometimes with the residents locked inside, lied without shame to foreign officials and the press and shut down all speech at home.
Now, Iran's reformist press is shut down, many of its reformist journalists and clerics have been imprisoned and its judiciary, dominated by ultra-conservative clerics, is determined to punish any behavior it considers un-Islamic.
Iran also is likely to be pressed to shut down its newest uranium-enrichment plant, which is built in mountain bunkers beyond the reach of most conventional bombs and missiles.
Insofar as the press supported that, that was deeply irresponsible, but I don't think the press should be shut down.
