David Stringer

1 week ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

Several years ago I read a biography of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and was struck by the — for lack of a better word — flourish with which he wrote. Yet, despite being a little “flowery”, he was able to make his point, even when it was in opposition to the individual he was communicating with. We seem to have lost that art.

1 week ago | prescottenews.com | David Stringer

A long tradition of humor and satire through drawings and cartoons has been missing from the journalism of Yavapai County. There was a time not long ago when cartoons graced the editorial pages of most daily newspapers. When you didn’t have time to read the paper, you at least glanced at the cartoon. But with the shift from print to cable TV and internet-based presentation of the news, political cartoons have fallen by the wayside. There was a time when editorial cartoonists won Pulitzer Prizes.

2 weeks ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

“Clothes make the man,” or so the saying goes. But does it also have an effect on our productivity? There’s been a lot of consternation related to individuals being required to return to office work, post-COVID. It seems too many of us got used to working in our jammies and twisted the “business in the front, party in the back” description applied to the mullet.

2 weeks ago | prescottenews.com | David Stringer

Hearing again those magical, mesmerizing tunes from “Fiddler On The Roof”, it’s hard to believe that one of Broadway’s greatest musicals is now over sixty years old. And still going strong. In last night’s revival of Broadway’s 1964 smash hit at the Yavapai College’s Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center, “Fiddler” was never in more devoted hands.

3 weeks ago | swoknews.com | David Stringer

Americans are going to have to decide what kind of media they want. In my view, I’m not sure the trends are wholly positive. Part of the conversation last week when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic being mistakenly added to a group chat about U.S. actions against Houthi rebels in Yemen immediately shifted to the journalist’s actions and responsibilities.