Saturday 7 February 2009

The uses of literacy

Been meaning to post this one for a while.
I imagine it's mere chance - both ads have been appearing for sometime in the New Yorker but always on different pages and never, as here, one above the other. Of course, these ads are one of the many reasons for still having a subscription to the paper and ink version. Someone who does maths should be able to work out the next time these two are likely to come into conjunction.
'Course, it might not be chance. Maybe a temp in the small ads department or setting the page has a wicked sense of humour.
And the New Yorker has visitied similar territory before - the June 9/16 front cover.

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Dear Mr. Marsh :

¿How do you do? My name is Ricardo Mosso, I am a member of the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA, www.fopea.org.ar). We got your e-mail address through our colleague Candace Piette, the BBC correspondent for South America.

We are looking forward to invite you to be one of the international speakers in our third national and international congress, that will take place here in Buenos Aires on November 20th & 21st. The meeting title is "Social responsabilities in media and journalism" and the opening conference will be in charge of Bill Kovach.

In the 2007 and 2008 edition of our congress, important journalists and scholars susch as Jim Rowe, Chuck Lewis and Philip Harding (former BBC editor) offered relevant

Hoping to get back to you soon, we remain

Truly yours,

AndrĂ©s D’Alessandro
Director Ejecutivo
Foro de Periodismo Argentino
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(C1098AAR) Buenos Aires
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