--Lots of commotion over Rick Seaney's report that airlines are hoisting up an unusual number of fare sales for the holidays. Not so, says an airline stock analyst, widely quoted in media. Dunno, I think Rick makes a persuasive case.
--And by the way, was that a tectonic shift toward online political news coverage that I just felt? Yup. Here.
--America's most dangerous cities? No, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles aren't on the top 10 list. Orlando is, though. Here's a photo list, from the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
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By JOE SHARKEY
Bio
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- Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine. He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel. "JoeSharkey.com" is Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Joe Sharkey.
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