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06.10.2008 10:41 am

Fighting words?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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05.13.2008 12:52 pm

Did the half-sheet on today’s paper upset you?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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04.08.2008 1:31 pm

No mention of Charlton Heston

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.13.2008 1:03 pm

Dog show athletes?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.11.2008 3:50 pm

Kirkwood shootings: Learnings about reader comments

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.11.2008 12:10 pm

Lucky Cow comic strip is dead

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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:…

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02.07.2008 1:20 pm

Delegates mystery

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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01.25.2008 10:40 am

An experiment in microblogging the ‘08 election

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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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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01.22.2008 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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