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Old farts are always being criticized by the next generation for harking back to the “good ol’ days’’ and yearning for that “”old gang of mine.’’ Well, I happen to be one of those greybeards who can attest that things were definitely better back in the Sixties and Seventies, particularly in the now near-moribund newspaper business.   Certainly, the salaries earned by the survivors far exceeds what we earned in those days (if you don’t take inflation into account), but that hardly compensates for the drastic change in today’s newsroom environment where copyreaders resemble zombies slumped over their computers and reporters enjoy about as much camaraderie as the Sunnis and Shiites..So when people ask me why I elected to take a buyout after 40 years on the sport staff of The Baltimore Sun in 1999 at age 66, I… read more

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I received fro my birthday a framed cartoon drawn by
James Hartzell for my uncle Jim Wild.  I looked up information on James Hartzell.  At the same time I found your article on"Good old days at the Sun”. It made me laugh out loud when I got to the section on Jim Wild.  That was my Uncle Jim.  He was a character,for sure , but much loved and so much fun for my sister and I and the 5 grand nephews that followed.

Posted by Marge Meyer on 02/11/12 at 10:04 AM

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