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Mike Magee was co founder of the Register and established its style. He left in 2001, and the Register has been declining ever since.

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I believe he then started the inquirer.net which ran for another decade.

I remember them occasionally featuring a fragment of a poem by Alexander Pope:

  "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
  And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise

To see this gloriously realised, check out CGP Grey's description of Pope's feud with Thomas Hearne. Linking the full video because it's a masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ

By some strange coincidence, I had decided this week to read Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and then watch the film again.

I might also repeat a famous Wilde quote:

There are two ways to dislike poetry. One is to dislike it, and the other is to read Pope.

Declining since 2001! That must be such a glacial decline

I really felt that when Larry the janitor left in 1998 is when the decline started.

I miss Larry. Backbone of the org.

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