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Once again ‘an organ of gold-buggery’
“Journalists who take themselves seriously, who regard the work of moulding public opinion as a high vocation, who believe in duty and are willing to accept responsibility, who would rather champion the rights of the many than defend the privileges of the few, are finding it more and more difficult either to enter or to Continue reading
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‘Refusing to obey orders’
The Day Book, E.W. Scripps’ Chicago-based ad-free daily, in 1916 reported on an unusual fight between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and all of St. Louis’ major department stores. The Post-Dispatch introduced a slick new rotogravure section to showcase its photography, but the department stores balked at the 50 cent per line ad rate, the highest Continue reading
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Dubious milestone
St. Louis has been taking it on the chin for a long time, but the pain hasn’t been spread evenly. The city’s Black population has been steadily dropping since 2000, and for the first time in 25 years, St. Louis is a white majority city, according to the latest U.S. Census estimates (released June 26, Continue reading
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‘Something must call from within’
In a 1934 syndicated story about beauty and brains (“No Such Thing as ‘Beautiful but Dumb’”), photographer Arnold Genthe, then 65, was asked by the writer, freelancer Helen Welshimer, to describe beauty in a woman. Genthe ticked off a series of mostly intangible attributes, reinforcing the old saying that “beauty is in the eye of Continue reading
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‘The tariff is a tax’
In 1912, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was aligned with presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson, who called for breaking U.S. business monopolies by reducing protective tariffs and enforcing antitrust laws. In his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination, Wilson said tariffs “have been most obviously used to kill competition and to raise prices in the United States, Continue reading
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Population and crime
St. Louis City Hall, seen here on April 13, 2024. No St. Louis mayor in the past 75 years — there were 11 of them — has seen the city’s population grow during his or her time in office. And no mayor during that time has succeeded in reducing the crime rate below national averages, despite his or her Continue reading
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I have seen the future, and it’s perplexing
Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, on Dec. 6 announced a partnership with Perplexity, an AI search engine. Perplexity, founded in 2022, claims it answers 100 million questions every week, but I’d never heard of it. Continue reading
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‘Marienlied’
Ich möchte immer nur schauen und schauen, dein liebes Anslitz du Fürstin der Frauen. Wie ist deine Stirn so klar und dein Lächeln, wie voll von Sonnenschein, so liebelendstend, so friedensmild daß laute Trost in die Seele quillt. So lächelstest du denn Heiland zu: O meine Mutter, wie schön bist du! Continue reading
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Afraid of being alone? You’re not alone.
Being told repeatedly “you are not alone” may not be all that reassuring. What may be intended to validate your experience, or at least spark your curiosity, also potentially strips your story of its particularity. When “you are not alone” you no longer are unique — you fit into a pattern. You’re a statistic. A Continue reading
Roland Klose 