The unusual wrap-around page on today’s Post-Dispatch is known as a spadia. 

Several readers called this morning to call it something else.

“Are you certifiably crazy? What is that weird thing covering the front page, about STLtoday.com?”

Another caller:

“You obliterated the front…

We’re a day into the redesign of STLtoday and we’ve made a lot of progress in addressing many issues that arose — some issues we’ve noticed ourselves, and many you’ve brought to our attention. For example, within 30 minutes of…

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I received three calls objecting to Sunday’s detailed look at the troubled life of Cookie Thornton, whose shootings at Kirkwood City Hall on Feb. 7 ended with six dead, including Thornton.

(The three-level headline read: Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton. BEHIND…

Some things are sure to upset some readers. Two women readers called today to say they were offended by a Page One reference to St. Louis as “The Lou.”

(The skyteaser at the top of the Post-Dispatch’s front page this…

A few calls this week questioned our choice of stories for the front page of the Post-Dispatch.   Three complained about the story Wednesday on parents deciding whether to circumcise males, and the changing trends there. It was a richly reported story,…

Headlines are what draw readers into stories. So we devote some time to writing them, and considering if the message conveyed is what we intended. A copy editor readers a story, then writes the headline. A chief copy editor then…

I’ve received a few — four at noon — calls from readers livid over our coverage and display of Pope Benedict XVI’s historic first visit to the United States.

“I am deeply ashamed,” read our top headline.

Smaller label words atop that…

Movie critic Joe Williams will recall Charlton Heston’s film career in his column in Friday’s Screens section. In a previous post on our lack of coverage of Heston’s death, I mistakenly said the remembrance would appear Sunday.

We kind of fumbled our reporting of the death of actor Charlton Heston. At least for thousands of Post-Dispatch readers.

Word of Heston’s death moved late Saturday evening, and made it into many copies of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. But thousands…