John Byrne is taking a vacation after a year and a half of nonstop news gathering, RAW STORY has learned.
Indeed. I've finally found an apartment in D.C. and I've just arrived back in Massachusetts, and am soon headed to Cape Cod with my family. Raw Managing Editors Larisa Alexandrovna and Avery Walker will be covering in my absence -- treat them well. It's my fault for any ensuing snafus: I've been so posessive with the site I often haven't surrendered enough control to let others help.
Anyway, the vacation comes after a crazy year; Larisa and I kept thinking that we'd get a slow week, that just after this week things would get slower, but this week became next week and that one became the following week and the madness continues today. If there is one thing the Bush Administration is incredibly good at, it's producing news.
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On to the typos. It's my bad, pretty much all of it. I've been exhausted lately, and the wear and tear from updating a website basically nine-thirty a.m. to one or two a.m. really kills a person. This vacation could not have come at a better time. As such, typos have been creeping into articles and headlines. Not that they weren't there before, but I knew my vacation was on when "Armenian" became "Americanium" in the Vanity Fair piece the other day. There must have been twenty five typographical errors in that piece and it couldn't have been longer than eight paragraphs. I've been a bit off my game.
I hope everyone got a chance to read Larisa's amazing piece on Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. She's on a few radio stations Friday talking about it and I hope the story continues to grow. We've gotten some real plaudits from 'real' journalists -- the role of the Senate in the whole WMD and pre-war intelligence affair has been rather missed. That article is here and the corollary timeline is here which was also compiled by Muriel Kane, our outstanding researcher. We've also added Ron Brynaert (who did the research for the Ann Coulter piece, and the pieces implicating Jeff Gannon and Talon News in plagiarism) to our team, and you'll see more articles based on his research in the weeks to come.
So tomorrow it's off to the beach. Every time I go away from the site, some major news breaks -- last time it was Ronald Reagan dying (and that should say something about how much time I take off) -- so let's hope things go well. Larisa and Avery will do a great job, I'm sure, but do be nice.
Finally, I do want to thank readers for calling typos, errors and stories to our attention. We do a great deal of work based on the tips people send in, and send stories along. We may not use them, but a lot of the stories I post come from things I get in emails. Along the error vein, I know if I make a mistake these days (now that some 150,000+ people a day are reading the site) I can count on all of you to clue me in. Today's blunder: Decatur, Georgia, not Decatur, Illinois. You know who you are. ;)
Thanks as always,
=John=
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