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Where's the Sunday Journalist?

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Cole’s Notes & Substack: Something New Is in the Ink “Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” That was the old rule of the press. Today, the barrels are digital, the presses run on servers, and the advice is simpler: never pick a fight with someone who has a Substack. I’m currently in the engine room getting things organized for the season ahead, refreshing this site, and connecting all the moving parts. The new Substack will be called View From the Plateau . If you want to get ahead of the curve, you can subscribe early right here: 👉 Subscribe to the New Substack Publication The archive is quiet at this very moment while the plumbing gets hooked up, but fresh essays, reported pieces, and regular dispatches are rolling out this fall.
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First Post - New System

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  This is Me - posting as The Sunday Journalist This is a test of the new email address for Cole's Notes.  I'm updating to add this as a new publishing identity.  Test run ignore.  The new Linux machine is up and running and the de-commisioning of Windows continues.  I like using the blog on this new identity.  It lets me concentrate more on writing and will let me shut down the old cole.cooper@gmail.com.  Use thesundayjournalist@gmail.com for comments.  This is a test link let me know if it works. Cole
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Test posting

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 Hello World This is a test of the new editor
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The Sunday Journalist Introducing a new Project

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VIEW FROM THE PLATEAU: A Manifesto for the Printed Page in a Digital Wilderness By Mark Coleman Founder & Editor-in-Chief I. The Wilderness of the Ephemeral We live in an era of unprecedented information friction, yet we have never been more culturally starved. The modern landscape has reduced the noble craft of journalism to a fleeting cascade of clickbait, algorithmic outrage, and phantom feeds that harvest our attention and return little of lasting value. Our stories are increasingly written on water, disappearing into the endless scroll of a low-trust digital economy. This is not what storytelling was meant to be. Fifty years ago, I began my career as the youngest color darkroom technician and photojournalist at the Calgary Herald , helping transition that historic newsroom from the mechanical weight of hot metal type to offset lithography. I watched physical ink meet paper to create a permanent, tangible record of our shared history. Decades later, as a staff interpreter at He...
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