![]() In this modern age of oversharing, I'm not going to get into every last one. Why now? The professional and personal reasons are myriad. The sentimental English major in me finds it altogether fitting to bring my column-writing to close after "dash thirty dash" years. It has been a blessing to work in a career that I have loved, getting paid by the line to opine, as a proud "ink-stained wretch" whose first high-school job was as a press inserter for my hometown newspaper, the Atlantic City Press, back in the late 1980s. Since Creators Syndicate started carrying my column nationally in 1999, I've penned nearly 2,000 weekly or bi-weekly columns over 1,177 weeks, for hundreds of print and website clients, totaling more than 1.1 million words. I prefer the definition in Webster's Dictionary:įrom 1992-1999, I wrote an estimated 300 bylined newspaper columns and nearly 1,000 unsigned editorials combined for the Los Angeles Daily News and Seattle Times. Western Union's famous mid-19th-century 92 Code of numerical shorthand signals lists the meaning of "-30-" as: Most media historians believe the typesetting mark originated when news was filed by telegraph. When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1992, I learned that "-30-" (pronounced "dash thirty dash") was the journalist's code for letting an editor know where your copy ended.
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