Wallraff Is Leaving The Atlantic.

by Little Miss Attila on April 14, 2009

At least, for now. It sounds like a layoff, of sorts, but if it is, they are laying off the wrong person. Making, rather, one of several possible wrong choices. (What would the right choice be? I’ll give you three guesses. The first two do not count.) Or this may simply represent a failure to keep Barbara happy enough not to accept mysterious assignments in undisclosed locations. Though whatever she’s working on, I hope she finishes soon—so I can read it.

Wallraff was one of several reasons I kept renewing my subscription to The Atlantic‘s print edition for so many years; as a matter of fact, her column (alternately, “Word Court” and “Word Fugitives”—but, especially, “Word Court,” natch) was always the first thing I looked at whenever the physical magazine arrived.

I don’t know whether I can continue to follow the Atlantic blogs only to read Megan McArdle, or whether I will continue to pick up the print edition just so I can read Sandra Tsing Loh—who is amazing in the long form. She is not the glib, funny Sandra of her one-woman shows and her radio presentations, but a different creature entirely. Just as much fun as she is in her one-woman plays: Sandra with bonus syllables.

In the meantime, we still have the online, independent Word Court. And just to be safe, I’ve secured my badge as a word cop. With a perfect score, of course . . .

Just remember: “It is a question of who is to be mistress. That’s all.”

Ciao, Barbara.

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I R A Darth Aggie April 15, 2009 at 6:47 am

“word cop”? Would that mean you’re a vocabular constabulary?

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I R A Darth Aggie April 15, 2009 at 6:48 am

once more, with feeling vocabulary constabulary.

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