A Reporter Faces the Naked Truth

[johnastovall]

"A couple of years back, around the time he was turning 50, Michael Precker was in his prime as a journalist. He'd never imagined himself doing anything else: "I knew in seventh grade I wanted to be a newspaperman."
A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, he was a foreign correspondent for 11 years in the Middle East and wrote feature articles on countless subjects for the Dallas Morning News. One year, the paper nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize.
Now he has a new job: running a strip club. "I feel lucky," he says."


Full story in Wall Street Journal

[Truckman]

This week, for instance, he wrote a press release about the guest appearance of a burlesque star named Tiny Tina. Then he drove to the airport to pick up the 3-foot-9-inch entertainer.

If Tiny Tina's ego is anything like that of the strippers I used to hang with, lo those many years ago, I would guess it's anything but tiny...I do not envy Mr. Precker in his new career...Ben