Peter Phipps: Time is on my side
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8.18.99
Peter Phipps: Time is on my side |
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Related: There's no accounting for R.I.'s scandals Related: When you're a sports lord, the serfsalways pick up the tab Time. That's my answer. I've had 10 years to find my voice and perfect a style. And as a weekly columnist, I have the time to report, to think, to write and to rewrite. In the case of "There's no accounting for R.I.'s scandals," and an earlier one about the Cleveland Browns football team, "When you're a sports lord, the serfs always pick up the tab," I've had the added benefit of more than 20 years of newspaper reading, reporting and editing. In the mid '70s, I covered a mob mayor of Cleveland. Right after arriving in Providence, Executive Editor Joel Rawson put me on the team covering a scandal in a state housing agency, and I later helped edit our coverage of Rhode Island's banking crisis in the early 1990s. As for pro sports, I profiled the owner of the Cleveland Browns 18 years ago. Later in Rhode Island, I wrote a big Sunday story on the Sullivan family. It's relatively easy to have sharp opinions and to speak in declarative sentences when you really know your material. As Mick would say, I've had time on my side. |
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