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| Mean-spirited person masquerading as a journalist. |
Thanks to Pat Hickey for writing the below response. http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2015/03/mary-schmich-trib-pulitzer-winner-and.html
Where did Schmich's hatred come from? If Schmich wrote a column like this about Blacks or Jews, there would be hell to pay. And rightfully so.
Mary Schmich is attempting to return us to 1860. This should not be allowed to go unanswered.
JUST WHO IS MARY SCHMICH AND WHAT IS HER PROBLEM?
Born in Savannah, Ga, the oldest of eight children, Schmich grew up in Hispania, attended high school in Phoenix, Arizona, and earned a B.A. from Pomona College.
After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, Schmich attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Palo Alto Peninsula Times Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and since 1985 at the Tribune, where she was a national correspondent based in Atlanta for five years. Her column started in 1992 and was interrupted for a year when she attended Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship for journalists.
From 1985 Schmich was the writer of Brenda Starr, Reporter until its final appearance in January 2011. The long-lived comic strip, set in Chicago, was created by Dale Messickfor the Chicago Tribune Syndicate in 1940. Messick continued to the early 1980s; Schmich was the third and final writer, working with the second and third artists.
About four times a year, Schmich and fellow Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn write a week of columns that consist of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. Each December, Schmich and Zorn host the "Songs of Good Cheer" holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities.
Schmich won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, recognizing 2011 work with the Tribune, citing "her wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city."[2][3]
"Wear sunscreen"[edit]
Main article: Wear Sunscreen
Schmich's June 1, 1997 column began with the injunction to wear sunscreen, and continued with discursive advice for living without regret. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one. The column was circulated around the Internet, with an erroneous claim that it was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut, usually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the misattribution became a news item when Vonnegut was contacted by reporters to comment. He told The New York Times, "What she wrote was funny, wise and charming, so I would have been proud had the words been mine."[4]
In 1998, Schmich published the column as a book, Wear Sunscreen. In 1999, Baz Luhrmann released a song called "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" in which this column is read word for word as written by Schmich, who gave permission and receives royalties. This song was a number one hit in several countries.
Works[edit]
- Wear Sunscreen (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0-8362-5528-3 – 54 pages
- Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now: the best of Mary Schmich (Chicago: Midway, 2013) ISBN 1572841451 – 415-page collection of "ten Pulitzer-winning columns along with 154 others"[5]
The Demoncratic Machine has ate the Irish up and spit them out!
ReplyDeleteHey Pickle, tell Chuy to hold a press conference tomorrow saying, "Rahm talks a big game about bringing jobs and opportunity to our City. He couldn't deliver yesterday's newspaper! If he was so great at it, the Obama Library would have been announced on schedule. And the Lucas Museum would not be heading to San Fran like it is". The Obama library is headed to New York. Just like the Obamas. The only reason they delayed the decision is to not embarrass Rahm. Tell Chuy to tell everyone it's not coming here. Period. If it was, the Obamas would have stuck to their schedule and announced it. Rahm doesn't even have the clout to push through the Lucas Museum. He's all talk and no action. Huge headlines! Tell Chuy to call him a blow hard and has been abandoned by the Obamas cause they know not to hitch themselves to a loser.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this Murph. The same PC scolds beef about any eyebrow raised in the wrong direction have no proble peeing on the shoes of people and expecting a huge slap on the back and heart 'thanks!' for doing so.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I could tell, her column was just anti-drunk. Our neighborhood's parade is far better since the North Side, suburban, and out-of-town drunk youngsters have been deterred from coming.
Deletewritten with contempt for catholics
DeleteThe Irish have been pawns and have been trampled across for generations, and sometimes by our own (Cunningham, Quinn, Daley, Durkin & Dart....et.al.) When is our story going to be told? and our movement take hold?
ReplyDeleteWithout being sold-out along the way for political expediency?
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/02/RIR-150216.php
There is very little written about her in terms of bio. There is a reason for that. She is hiding some baggage.
ReplyDeleteProbably quite deranged. You don't write that kind of garbage unless you are touched.
many hate the irish because they have been labled as drunken rowdys, Democrat [Communist] Political Backstabbers, Blowhard Bullshitters, Hotheads, connivers, Block-Voting Chumbalones, Bullys, Elitists, Braggers, tough guys, bitchy, moody, mean and vendictive, backstabbers, scammers, slackers, and just general all around Jerks.
ReplyDeleteThis is only half true.
That is the tag. Micks also are loyal, generous, welcoming, patriotic, devout, good-natured, tolerant of the stereotype for the most part.
DeleteThere's an awful lot of people that watch the news and read the papers who believe what they read is fact and that the "fourth estate" is there as a "public watchdog" looking out for everyone's best interest. Think about newspapers endorsing candidates. There must be some kind of presumption that citizens who vote regularly are too dense to have their own opinions on a candidate. In those instances a simple question of "what are they going to do, and how do they intend to accomplish it?" is a simple guideline to who best serves your interest. But getting back to the media. There aren't reporters anymore, instead there are "media personalities". Ever notice how often John Kass shows up on TV or until recently the radio, same thing Lynn Sweet and any number of newspaper reporters that are "branching out". Its not about what they have to tell you thats factual, its more about their opinions about events and people they feel like dishing on. It's been a long time since you could "believe it because it was in the Tribune". All you have to do is take a look at what's allowed to be advertised in the classified personals section to see what the publishers of this rag think is in the public interest.
ReplyDeleteSo it should come as no surprise to anyone that this columnist and others exploit the papers circulation to show all of us how clever they are, but usually at somebody else's expense.
Her writings are known to be anti-Catholic.
ReplyDeleteShe is a very disingenuous liberal who coddles blacks and makes typical excuses for their dysfunctional behavior.
ReplyDeleteOff topic, Sunday morning, Dart is on Channel 7 with Alan Krashesky talking about "his" jail. Had the interview on for 4 minutes so far and he's referred to the County Jail as "His Jail" 5 times already. I told the kids to get me a bottle of Windex so I can wipe my spit off the TV screen.
ReplyDeleteTribune media gets sued all of the time, loses, then hides their lawsuits from the Internet. John Kass tried to smear some cop and got him charged criminally only that guy beat the case. Eric Zorn painted some other black guy as a criminal and.that guy ended up incarcerated released from prison and is now suing for 40 million.
ReplyDeleteTribune sued by its investors for bilking them When is the tribune going to come clean