Dov Alfon, editor-in-chief of Israeli newspaper Haaretz, decided to give all of his journalists the day off last Wednesday and have the news scribed by some of Israel's finest living authors instead. It proved to be a worthwhile experiment.
Avri Herling's stock market report:
"Everything’s okay. Everything’s like usual. Yesterday trading ended. Everything’s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place… Dow Jones traded steadily and closed with 8,761 points, Nasdaq added 0.9% to a level of 1,860 points…. The guy from the shakshuka [an Israeli egg-and-tomato dish] shop raised his prices again…."
The weather, a poem by Roni Somek:
"Summer is the pencil
that is least sharp
in the seasons’ pencil case."
The New York Times would never do something like this. And even if they did, would that New Yorker sensibility get the best of the authors and make the news even more neurotic, paranoid, and pessimistic than it already is?
Thanks to Marcia for the link.
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