Part three of the New Homeless series for The Las Vegas Sun is now up and running and it is Miss L’s image at sunset that graces the front page for a change. Excerpt: Henry Miller notes that writers “begin to develop, to reveal their true personality, after passing the age of forty-five” and that [...]
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Homelessness and the Indignity of Hurtful Speech
Posted: December 5, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas SunTags: Georges Simenon, homelessness, Joseph Speranzella, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, New Homeless, Norfolk Catholic Examiner, Rodger Jacobs, writers, writing
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Journaliste Sombre
Posted: November 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: homeless, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Rodger Jacobs, The Great Recession, The New Homeless
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” ~~~ Abraham Lincoln “The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.” ~~~ Herbert Samuel SECOND UPDATE BELOW: 11/27/10, 7:47 PM The right turn of a phrase, short and succinct, can convey more than a thousand [...]
Katie Euphrat’s Mini-Doc Part Two
Posted: September 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some Water, Breakdown on Paradise RoadTags: Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Rodger Jacobs, The Great Recession, The New Homeless, writers
The second — and outstanding — installment of Katie Euphrat’s mini-doc on my Las Vegas Sun story, The New Homeless, is now up and running at the online version of the newspaper; I must admit that the first minute or so of the video is very difficult for me to watch.
Las Vegas Sun Changes Comment Policy
Posted: September 23, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Breakdown on Paradise RoadTags: journalism, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, newspapers, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless
“It’s interesting, you know, in some walks of life the ordinary rules of decent conduct seem to have vanished altogether …” Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Wine Merchant (1970) I’m quite certain that frothing-at-the-mouth reader reactions to my August 29 story for the Las Vegas Sun, The New Homeless, played no small part in this [...]
Updates from the World Wide Web …
Posted: September 9, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: homeless, I Run From Bears, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Newsvine, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless, writers
Newsvine, a site that appears to be an online news aggregator, has picked up part one of my story in the Las Vegas Sun (part two is now scheduled to run Sunday, September 26), and garnered the sort of comments that you will not hear within the hollow confines of Southern Nevada: When I was [...]
