Wendell Frost has edited this newspaper since 1998. He came up on the overnight copy desk of a wire service that no longer exists, where he learned the two rules he still enforces: a headline may not out-run its story, and a source with no name is a source with no weight. He is the author of Two Sources and a Telephone (Hoop & Marrow, 2014).
Disclosures
Holds no securities. Declined a 2011 invitation to the Bohemian Grove and has published the invitation letter in The Vault (PX-1104).
Work by Frost
Most of our postbag believes something we have investigated and could not stand up. The temptation is to write for the readers we wish we had. Here is why we don't, and where that argument stops.
