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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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12.07.2007 6:44 pm

Remembering Pearl Harbor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

At least four callers today said we didn’t remember  Pearl Harbor adequately in the Post-Dispatch on Friday morning.

We ran a story about the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Page A2, with a one-sentence “rail” mention…

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11.12.2007 2:01 pm

Memories of long-departed newspapers

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

Headless candidate

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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09.14.2007 1:22 pm

Presidential campaign coverage

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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08.08.2007 10:48 am

What kind of headline would you give Barry?

Some newspapers today put an asterisk on the main headline on Barry Bonds, as a dig to the new home run king. But most newspapers in the country played it straight, including the San Francisco Chronicle, which uncovered much of the Balco…

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05.17.2007 11:55 am

Why we think the Body Worlds exhibition is newsworthy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We have gotten a handful of readers’ comments about the use of the Body Worlds storyand the photos in particular — on the front page of the Post-Dispatch and the home page of STLtoday.com.

We felt that the announcement of…

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05.10.2007 10:45 am

Spidey sense or nonsense?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A letter to the editor this morning reflected a debate we’ve had internally over a story that appeared in Sunday’s NewsWatch section.

Letter writer Steve Jacobs of Frontenac challenged an AP story that appeared on the NewsWatch cover: “Are damsels in…

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05.08.2007 12:23 pm

Big deal or dig deal?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We published a correction today that a few of my colleagues  called  confusing.

“A headline Saturday on a story about the Missouri Virtual Instruction Program should have read, “Missouri’s virtual school expected to be a big draw.” The word “big”…

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04.19.2007 11:42 am

Would you run the Virginia Tech video?

One of the most compelling photos in the paper today is that of Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui taken from the video he submitted to NBC. The image was the lead image on many newspapers throughout the country today.

Check…

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