The Pentagon has lifted a nearly two-decade-old ban on photographing flag-draped caskets of fallen U.S. soldiers. Here’s the Associated Press’ account of today’s news:
Caskets of war dead
WASHINGTON (AP) - News organizations will be allowed to photograph the homecomings of America’s…
The election season culminating in Barack Obama’s victory was the top news story of 2008, according to U.S. editors and news directors voting in the Associated Press’ annual poll.
The massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech University by a mentally…
Writing on HumanEvents.com, Oliver North takes exception with “the mainstream media’s” news judgment. North writes:
“This week the so-called mainstream media fixated on a Baghdad shoe-throwing contest, more government bailout bucks and the delightful prospect of having Caroline Kennedy appointed to Hillary Clinton’s…
Did you save the front page of the Post-Dispatch the day after Barack Obama’s election victory?
Almost a quarter (23 percent) of Americans say they are saving a newspaper with headlines about Barack Obama’s victory, according to a study by the…
Starting this morning, we’ve added deaths in the Afghanistan war to the graphic that appears every Wednesday in the main news section of the Post-Dispatch. The graphic previously listed only deaths in the Iraq war.
Copy editor Jeff Herman suggested the…
A reader called today to protest our lack of coverage of the war in Iraq. Not a word, she said. She contrasted that to the lengthy story and large photo on Page A2 reporting the death of comedian George Carlin
Actually,…
A retired Globe-Democrat staffer called to criticize our day-in and day-out reporting on the war in Iraq. Not enough, not prominent enough, she said.
Five years into the war, is an 8-inch story in the middle of Page A5 enough? (”Iraqis push…
