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05.01.2008 11:26 am

Offended by “The Lou”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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01.24.2008 1:21 pm

Is “The Lou” offensive?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“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…

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01.23.2008 3:05 pm

Clarification on a correction

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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01.22.2008 12:10 pm

Body Worlds worse than pregnancy photo?

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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01.21.2008 10:21 am

Poor taste to show pregnant belly?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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01.17.2008 12:28 pm

An unfair profile of McCain?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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01.15.2008 3:53 pm

Why we use the abbreviations we use (or not)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.…

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01.14.2008 2:56 pm

A week’s feedback

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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01.10.2008 3:23 pm

UPDATE: Upgrade done on STLtoday’s blogs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

UPDATE: We’re done with the upgrade to STLtoday’s blogs. Thanks for your patience.

Earlier note:

Loyal readers of the STLtoday blogs, we’ve got some news for you. On Sunday, Jan. 13, we’ll be implementing an upgrade to our blog software.

What’s…

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01.10.2008 1:02 pm

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This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as…

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