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Kevrob <
kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:
D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
Yesterday, one of my clients gifted me with Wednesday's edition of the
_Casper Star Tribune_. It's the fat one, stuffed with inserts and
coupons. The newspaper wasn't for me, it was for my wife, to help me
earn some brownie points.
Soon after receiving the gift, my wife trolls me. "Do you know who
Weisinger is? He wants his father's papers back from U of W because of
Liz Cheney." One thing leads to another until:
Son of superman editor demands UW return historical archive after
Cheney comments
... An avid CNN watcher, Weisinger usually turns on the network
every day as idle watching, background noise to listen to while
he works. But before getting into his work, he said, he'll
usually watch five minutes of the conservative-leaning Fox News
Channel, in order to "see the distortions" of the day's events,
he said. ...
https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/son-of-superman-editor-demands-uw-return-historical-archive-after/article_517c6867-2283-5ac2-87b5-f7e5e3b78cfc.html
There's a couple of concerns with Weisinger's behavior.
First, Laramie County, where the University's located, is one of the two
reliably Democrat counties in the state. Punishing the University is
tantamount to disgruntled HRC voters blocking traffic in Democrat cities
in the aftermath of the 2016 election.
As an aside, Teton County, home of world class banksters, is the
other reliably Democrat county. (Jackson rolls in his grave.)
The second concern with Weisinger is that he watches TV and then bull
ships himself into believing that it's merely "background noise." He
doesn't give propaganda purveyors nearly enough credit.
Perhaps you'd like to repost this in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe?
Unca Mort's progeny should be more concerned about the lack of
"truth, justice and the American way" in the way Joe Shuster and
Jerry Siegel were treated by National-DC, maybe?
I understand that donating personal papers to an archive can be complicated, due to issues of copyright, tax deductions, access, etc. Is the university even required to heed the wishes of the heirs? Would they have to pay back the IRS for any tax benefit Mort got? This was the man who wrote
"1001 Valuable Things You Can Get Free," after all!*
* http://fancyclopedia.org/mort-weisinger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Weisinger
This was added later:
Re-posted to rec.arts.comics.dc.universe.
You remind me of a third concern with Weisinger. DC made a big
production out of dropping "the American way" during Dubya's invasions.
As a fellow member of the global "tribe" of entrepreneurs, Unca Mort's thriftiness is appreciated by me. A couple of _Boardroom Classics_ [1]
sit on my own shelves.
Your link above says that Unca Mort collaborated with Ackerman on
the _The Time Traveller_ fanzine. Some of Ackerman's papers are also at
UW along with some of Stan Lee's.
The next state over, Kansas, has a sfnal collection. [2] It's counterintuitive for such low population states to hold these papers,
which lends credibility to a big tax loophole somewhere in the mix.
Anyhow, Weisinger's announcement seems more publicity stunt than
anything. It'll probably be quietly forgotten.
Note.
[1]
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1405485.Boardroom_Classics
[2]
http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/research-collection.htm
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Thank you,
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Perhaps you'd like to repost this in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe?
Unca Mort's progeny should be more concerned about the lack of
"truth, justice and the American way" in the way Joe Shuster and
Jerry Siegel were treated by National-DC, maybe?
I understand that donating personal papers to an archive can be complicated, due to issues of copyright, tax deductions, access, etc. Is the university even required to heed the wishes of the heirs? Would they have to pay back
the IRS for any tax benefit Mort got? This was the man who wrote
"1001 Valuable Things You Can Get Free," after all!*
*
http://fancyclopedia.org/mort-weisinger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Weisinger
☮
Thank you,
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tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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