Editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided shortly after the assault at Fort Hood Thursday to devote a major part of the front page to that story. We weighed whether to cut back to one or two local stories on…
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Was Michael Jackson’s death worth front-page display in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? For editors yesterday, the answer was clearly yes.
But how much display was appropriate? News of his death arrived late afternoon. (Bob Rose will be posting a…
The recent spate of deadly shootings that appear to have political or ethnic underpinnings has raised questions of how the Post-Dispatch and other media have reported on it.
Some readers have inquired why the May 31 shooting of Dr. George Tiller…
It’s not uncommon for readers — and fellow staffers — to question the lineup of stories we select for Page One. Today, at least five readers told us that “Sears customer is left high and dry. Washer set hasn’t arrived…
“Lost a Woobie?” asked a headline at the bottom of the front page of Monday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
“Have we lost our minds?” a few readers asked editors in response. That’s not front-page news, the readers said.
The story details a “black market”…
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…
The “readers representative” for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (a position like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s old Readers Advocate) has explained to that paper’s readers why Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s arrest didn’t make its Page One.
Basically, much like the Post-Dispatch, editors there strongly…
“Russia expands fighting in Georgia; 2,000 dead” says a 6-column headline on Page A8 of the Post-Dispatch.
The biggest headline on Page One, over 4 columns:
“Big TV switch is coming, but many in area are…
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