Death of the E. Stewart Jones Power Play

[marty]

Continued sponsorship for the 2024-25 RPI power play may be at risk.  Storied legal eagle E. Stewart Jones, the longtime sponsor of this rare event, has been disbarred.

[TimV]

Maybe a naming opportunity for the penalty box? ::banana::

[Scersk '97]

Maybe a naming opportunity for the penalty box? ::banana::

"This seat reserved for Dan Dufresne."

[billhoward]

So minor, still so annoying: filler words in stories or newscasts. Here, former attorney was "formally disbarred," as if one can be disbarred informally. Just as every story on the seasons' changes says, "It's officially the first day of spring."

Thirty years ago, anytime of the last century, a midsize newspaper would have a half-dozen or more copy desk editors reading every piece of copy, even the wire stories that were already edited, people who looked for this kind of thing. The kindly old copy desk guy with an English degree from Bowdoin and some hope for the future of journalism might speak quietly with the reporter. Others would catch it and yell at the reporter, maybe not by the drunk-reporter-now-copy-editor brought inside the newsroom so as not to embarrass the paper, he might catch the glitch before his dinner at the local tavern.

PS Did this Jones have a Cornell connection? I didn't see one in a quick online search.

[ursusminor]

PS Did this Jones have a Cornell connection? I didn't see one in a quick online search.

Williams '63 and Albany Law School '66 https://www.martindale.com/attorney/e-stewart-jones-jr-169066832/

[marty]

So minor, still so annoying: filler words in stories or newscasts. Here, former attorney was "formally disbarred," as if one can be disbarred informally. Just as every story on the seasons' changes says, "It's officially the first day of spring."

Thirty years ago, anytime of the last century, a midsize newspaper would have a half-dozen or more copy desk editors reading every piece of copy, even the wire stories that were already edited, people who looked for this kind of thing. The kindly old copy desk guy with an English degree from Bowdoin and some hope for the future of journalism might speak quietly with the reporter. Others would catch it and yell at the reporter, maybe not by the drunk-reporter-now-copy-editor brought inside the newsroom so as not to embarrass the paper, he might catch the glitch before his dinner at the local tavern.

PS Did this Jones have a Cornell connection? I didn't see one in a quick online search.

I'm a horrible writer yet I could help them as a copy editor.  The T.U. has the excellent journalist Steve Barnes as the last man standing.  During Covid Steve often pinch hit for the hard news staff - he is a food and arts feature writer.  I'd often be halfway through an article, glance at the byline because the article was abnormally cogent and find Steve's name.

Their business section is an abomination which regularly includes feature items but rarely hard local business items. This was the most prominent article in last Sunday's business section.  Note it is properly rebranded as "Food and Drink" in their archives. Their best business articles are post-mortems written by Steve when a local eatery goes belly up.

E. Stewart's most recent Cornell connection that I know of was the dirty look he gave me when I yelled "It's a Ruth Bader Ginsberg power play" during a visit by the Big Red to Houston Field House a few years ago.