Jere Matlock
Jere Matlock began writing in the ’60’s and has written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, but does not consider himself a reporter. Heaven forbid! As any of you working reporters out there know, you are given your story (and its “slant”) by the editor of the paper/magazine. Any “reporting” you do after that is simply finding out details that fit the editorial slant you are given, based on the affiliations of your newspaper or magazine, as determined by its owners and advertisers.
Although the facts thus “reported” may all be accurate, the truth itself often suffers greatly from this system. You see, it is “Controversy” that sells papers. It may sell papers, but in its presentation often creates tremendous bias against the righteous with truth on their side, while gaining sympathy for the truly evil. Mr. Matlock refuses to participate in this omnipresent scam. If you have led an insular existence and need examples of this, he will be happy to enlighten you. He may rant at you about Dan Rathers’ doctored interviews at great length.
It is also true that Jere is very entertained by the concept of journalism deadlines and how closely editors take them to their bosoms. Like Dilbert, he loves the “whooshing” noise deadlines make as they fly by.
Since 1995, Jere has earned a living as a website developer and website marketing expert. His commercial website, Words in a Row is full of practical, free advice on how to market products and make money through websites. His main niche is in building big, database-driven websites that actually sell stuff, with search engine optimization (SEO, i.e., getting websites to show up in the search engines) all built in from the ground up. He has many clients with #1 spots at Google and Bing for their main key word phrases. Most of his clients come to him by word of mouth–and there is often a waiting list for his web development services.
Jere has also written several books, some of which you can sample or buy here.
After a very busy stint working for Warner Brothers, for the past few years Jere Matlock has sought to simplify his life, and travel about the US in a big RV. These are sometimes contradictory goals. He lives most of the time in the Seattle area. (Feel free to insert your own cliched “rains too much” jokes here).
Jere Matlock is also a published poet, and here you can read some of his poetry. Warning: You may actually understand these poems.