01.22.2008 12:10 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Three more calls today objecting to the pregnant belly on Monday’s A1. One woman said that when she saw the photo of the “squishy pregnant belly of a mother” on Monday, she thought that the only thing that would be…

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11.12.2007 2:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As you might imagine, we’ve received hundreds of complaints about recent changes to the PDTV, the weekly guide to television.
One caller today likened the Post-Dispatch — especially the new TV book — to toilet paper. The St. Louis Star-Times…

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11.05.2007 2:55 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I fielded four complaints today — I suspect Sunday editor Ron Wade and photo editors heard others — about the photo on Sunday’s front page that showed a headless Joe Biden.
The photo accompanied a large “container” on A1 that…

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10.19.2007 3:11 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Based on several years of readers’ calls in the morning, I expected to hear complaints about the bra ad on Page A11 of this morning’s Post-Dispatch. The model in the ad filled half the page. Not a word.
But two…

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09.14.2007 1:22 pm
The presidential political season is upon us, and partisan readers are quick to pounce on the Post-Dispatch for failing to publish stories big and small that reinforce their views of the candidates. The Internet and its various political sites have…

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05.31.2007 4:48 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
We’re still getting a few calls about the changes in our features sections, with the biggest complaint being that the comics and features are hard to find.
We know that Thursday’s paper presents the greatest challenge to readers, because the…

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05.24.2007 3:45 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As Page One editor, my name appears at the top of the list of editors’ phone numbers on Page A2. So I take a fair share of readers calls that are unrelated to the front page.
Today, five calls were…

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04.17.2007 1:54 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
At this morning’s critique of today’s front page, an editor wondered why “Purchase records sought for two guns used in rampage” was among the headlines at the top of A1.
By far, the biggest headline was “Massacre on campus”
A…

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