Offended by “The Lou”
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…
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…
“Lou” has its enemies.
A voice message greeted me this morning from an older-sounding woman reader who proclaimed that the day the Post-Dispatch referred to St. Louis as “The Lou” on the front page and the day a sticky ad appeared…
The Post-Dispatch ran a correction this morning that misled one reader. The correction: “Anthony Shahid, who attended a ceremony in St. Louis honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was misidentified in a photo caption in Tuesday’s main news…
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…
3 callers objected to the photograph atop today’s front page of the Post-Dispatch, which showed three hands touching a very pregnant belly. The woman was being examined at the Community Birth Center in Columbia, and the photo accompanied the second of…
Today’s Page One profile of John McCain was unfair to the candidate, one caller complained this morning. He said there wasn’t a kind word in the piece. The profile certainly had tone, but did it cross the lines of fair…
I got an e-mail recently from a reader who noted that one of the universities in St. Louis is officially called “Saint Louis University” — yet the Post-Dispatch refers to it as “St. Louis University.” Why, she wanted to know.…
Today’s my first day back from vacation (a week in New Orleans) and I fielded about 20 phone messages from readers who chose to leave voice messages.
Some comments:
Four callers objected to our first-year anniversary stories on the Shawn Hornbeck case.…
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