schooling

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Mary McLeod Bethune doll, at the Doll & Miniature Museum of High Point, NC

Writing news: 7x20 recently published "Gray Areas".

Weekend reading: an interview of Bel Kaufman (author of Up the Down Staircase) by Robert Sullivan, and parts of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life. Among other things, I hadn't known she was such a Francophile. And I loved this glimpse of her Columbia j-school training:

[John] Hohenberg would run students through harrowing "speed drills"--demanding that they crank out stories in just a few minutes. And he urged everyone to keep $100 set aside. It was basically a Fuck You account--so that if an editor ever demanded that you do a story you hated, you would have at least $100 to help you walk away from the job.

[Minutaglio, Bill; Smith, W. Michael (2009-10-15). Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life (Kindle Locations 1611-1614). Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.]

Comments

F-U account

[(Anonymous)]

In a recent magazine interview, Pink said that 50% of everything she makes goes into the account, for similar reasons - if the record company wants her to do something she doesn't want to do, she is out of there. I presume that her stash is rather more than $100.00.
(lauradi7 on LJ)

Re: F-U account

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Smart woman. Ivins was in j-school in the mid-1960s -- $100 covered so much more back then...