He started a master's thesis he would never finish, for reasons no one may ever know. Prior to enrolling in Carleton's graduate program in journalism, Ostick had enjoyed a successful career as a musician and later as a pop and rock music critic at the Winnipeg Free Press. He also published an unauthorized biography of the Crash Test Dummies, entitled Superman's Song, with Quarry Press in 1995. It's up to you to discover it. I was, of course, sadly unaware of whatever issues might be complicating Ostick's own life as he walked students through the journalistic basics of lead, attribution and context.
Managers apply it first to themselves, then extend it to their staff.
Instead, managers scream at underlings, never explaining they are in pain because their partner has just left them. Reporters snap at colleagues, not stopping to note that they are frazzled because they've been awake all night with a restive child. In the early '80s, with more women in newsrooms, things softened a little. But across the country, people are reporting severe slippage. Three years ago, a dear, gentle and overly conscientious man I had known for nearly 30 years, asphyxiated himself in his garage.