The Editors' Desk http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk Posting about issues and topics affecting the Post-Dispatch and the news industry. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:17:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en 1 The Editors' Desk http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/yahoo/stl_pd_logo.jpg http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk 143 50 STLtoday.com Newsweek’s cover of Sarah Palin in shorts draws a range of critics http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/newsweeks-cover-of-sarah-palin-in-shorts-draws-a-range-of-critics/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/newsweeks-cover-of-sarah-palin-in-shorts-draws-a-range-of-critics/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:17:54 +0000 Steve Parker http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2585 Sarah Palin posed in gym shorts for a photo taken for Runner’s World magazine — and months later it shows up as the cover of Newsweek, for a story about Palin and politics.

The whole incident is being called unethical, sexist…

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]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/follow-up-the-case-of-the-vulgar-comment-and-the-school/feed/ Justice Kennedy ‘frustrated’ by student press flap, WSJ reports http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/justice-kennedy-frustrated-by-student-press-flap-wsj-reports/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/justice-kennedy-frustrated-by-student-press-flap-wsj-reports/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:40:31 +0000 Steve Parker http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2579 Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to set the record straight about his office’s request to see a high school newspaper’s article about a speech he gave before its publication:

His office did ask to see the story, Kennedy says, but…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/justice-kennedy-frustrated-by-student-press-flap-wsj-reports/feed/ Another polarizing moment: Obama’s bow to Japanese emperor http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/another-polarizing-moment-obamas-bow-to-japanese-emperor/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/another-polarizing-moment-obamas-bow-to-japanese-emperor/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:31:41 +0000 Steve Parker http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2570 President Barack Obama’s weekend bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito seems to have created another polarizing moment for Americans.

Associated Press photo

Associated Press photo

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Monday that the bow was “a sign of respect to the emperor,” the Associated…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/another-polarizing-moment-obamas-bow-to-japanese-emperor/feed/ Post a vulgar comment while you’re at work, lose your job http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/post-a-vulgar-comment-while-youre-at-work-lose-your-job/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/post-a-vulgar-comment-while-youre-at-work-lose-your-job/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:41:58 +0000 Kurt Greenbaum http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2566 Courtesy altemark via Flickr

Courtesy altemark via Flickr

Note: This is cross-posted from my personal blog.

A single vulgar word cost a man his job on Friday.

It all started with Friday’s edition of Talk of the Day, a regular blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website,…

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The debate over this is going on throughout the media. Some critics, including some within the…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/should-the-media-call-nidal-malik-hasan-a-terrorist/feed/ Shame on the media for Fort Hood errors, E&P’s editor says http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/shame-on-the-media-for-fort-hood-errors-eps-editor-says/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/shame-on-the-media-for-fort-hood-errors-eps-editor-says/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:13:46 +0000 Steve Parker http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2556 The media has suffered two black eyes in its reporting of the Fort Hood rampage, the editor of the media journal Editor & Publisher says in a commentary.

E&P Editor Greg Mitchell writes:

With the publication of an interview with Sgt. Mark Todd, the…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/shame-on-the-media-for-fort-hood-errors-eps-editor-says/feed/ Americans split on troop levels, government’s role in health care http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/americans-split-on-troop-levels-governments-role-in-health-care/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/americans-split-on-troop-levels-governments-role-in-health-care/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:37:32 +0000 Steve Parker http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2554 Decisions are ahead on two key issues: health care changes and whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Two new Gallup polls shows Americans are pretty much split on what should be done.

In a poll released today, Gallup reports:

More Americans now…

]]> http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/americans-split-on-troop-levels-governments-role-in-health-care/feed/ Times: Witness credits second officer with stopping Fort Hood shooter http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/times-witness-credits-second-officer-with-stopping-fort-hood-shooter/ http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/times-witness-credits-second-officer-with-stopping-fort-hood-shooter/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:41:59 +0000 Steve Parker http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/?p=2547 Newspapers around the country — including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch — carried front-page stories last week hailing police Sgt. Kimblerly Munley as the hero who single-handedly brought down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in the rampage at Fort Hood.  While Munley was…

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The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz  quotes a Fox News spokesman as saying the network hasn’t had discussions with Dobbs.  The Los Angeles Times’ political blog Top of the…

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