Fighting words?
A reporter this morning told me to expect calls from people offended by a photograph on the cover of the Here & Now section and currently the lead image on the LifeStyle channel of STLtoday.
“I’m not a bad lay,” reads…
A reporter this morning told me to expect calls from people offended by a photograph on the cover of the Here & Now section and currently the lead image on the LifeStyle channel of STLtoday.
“I’m not a bad lay,” reads…
The unusual wrap-around page on today’s Post-Dispatch is known as a spadia.
Several readers called this morning to call it something else.
“Are you certifiably crazy? What is that weird thing covering the front page, about STLtoday.com?”
Another caller:
“You obliterated the front…
We kind of fumbled our reporting of the death of actor Charlton Heston. At least for thousands of Post-Dispatch readers.
Word of Heston’s death moved late Saturday evening, and made it into many copies of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. But thousands…
The Westminster Kennel Club Annual Dog Show coverage in the Post-Dispatch appeared in the main news section this year, a switch from previous years when it appeared in the Sports section. Assistant Sports Editor Cameron Hollway on Monday night asked if…
I spent a good portion of Friday — and much of the weekend — moderating the hundreds of comments posted on our Talk of the Day blog about the Kirkwood shootings. We had invited readers to post their condolences and thoughts…
We’ve had a few readers wondering what happened to the Lucky Cow comic strip. It’s gone. I don’t have firsthand knowledge of the details. But here’s an explanation from Alan Gardner, who wrote in his online Daily Cartoonist report Jan. 3:…
We’re guilty of some not-too-sharp editing in today’s paper. Our top story today attempted to make sense of the post-Super Tuesday presidential campaign landscape. I thought it did so very well. But we had one big oversight. In the graphic…
We’re trying an experiment here. It involves inviting readers to post their “micro-commentaries” about the ‘08 election to a page on Twitter. For those who don’t already know, Twitter is a microblogging site that is used by thousands to keep…
“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…
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…