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- Jonathan Barnes
- I am a Pittsburgh journalist and freelance writer, a correspondent for Engineering News-Record and a stringer for Reuters, The New York Times, and a regular contributor to The Cooperator. I am a former longtime freelancer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a former contributor to Carnegie Mellon Today. I have been a real estate columnist and stringer for Pittsburgh Business Times, and a bylined stringer for Fortune, the New York Daily News, and Newsday. I also have been a stringer for Wall Street Market Report. I contribute to other publications and have done business writing for engineering, real estate, PR and marketing firms. I am a former reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a former editor/reporter for the Butler Eagle. I have published more than 2,300 stories in numerous publications, including Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Pittsburgh Magazine and Philadelphia Weekly. I am a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. To contact me for work, email pittsburghreporter@yahoo.com, or call 412-867-8385.
8 comments:
yeah. very.
man, any day now, i'll start whistlin' dixie and won't ever be able to stop. we're rednecks, rednecks, we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground...and if you know this randy newman song, you know the rest of the chorus.
About a year back, I ruminated on my hillbilly provenance (hillbilly provenance, nice juxtaposition). Don't forget, at the time of the Whisky Rebellion, Western Pennsylvania was also the testing ground of a nation divided between Federalism and Jeffersonian agrarianism. Yeehaw!
Sherry,
I'm glad you got my point.
i got your point too. i just don't have any desire to get in touch with my inner hillbilly. your experience down south of the mason dixon line prove all too familiar and routine. then again, us yankees tend to look at our southern brothers and sisters as a bunch of bigoted rubes. then again, if you listen to that randy newman song i quoted in an earlier post, he lambastes us enlightened northerners for our half-assed liberalism that allows black citizens to be "free" in all our various big city ghettos. so whatever side of the fence we're on, we think those on the across the border are not up to par. and remember, the slavery issue wasn't such a big deal with lincoln when the war started. he pulled out the emancipation act when he needed to muster some support for the cause when things weren't looking so optimistic.
I've never advocated getting in touch with your "inner hillbilly"--you came up with that idea.
I did recently write a piece titled Pittsburgh: Urban Appalachia, highliting some of the culture in this area. I also wrote a piece about a strange interaction with a lady in Virginia, titled, Damn Yankees. If you read them, and the P-G op-ed, written by an old friend of mine from CMU who has read this blog, you might understand.
I also wrote another history weighted Virgina-based piece, Without Conditions.
Jonathan,
My point was that the PG article suggests that we embrace our appalachian roots. which is fine, if all we're going to do is clog dance all weekend to some bluegrass fiddle music and stuff our faces with funnel cake.then again, by the amount of confederate flag decals i see on pickup trucks around here, i think we already might be giving our hillbilly heritage a great big bear hug.
i'll tell you. all you local bloggers are getting to the point where it's no use in commenting unless it's a thumbs up pat on the back.
or maybe we're just not agreeing on the definition of Verisimilitude. which carries a meaning of, in stephen colbert's word, "truthiness."
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