The Community Section of Wednesday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch carried a short item from the Suburban Journals in which the principal of Timberland High School in Wentzville defended his decision last month to pull stories about tattoos from the student newspaper.…
Sports writers at the Denver Post no longer predict the outcomes of games involving teams they cover. Westworld.com reports that the Post’s editor, Greg Moore, says it’s a matter of ethics.
Moore told the Westworld news blog:
“Sports writers are no different than other…
Talking Points Memo reports that former President George W. Bush has signed on as a motivational speaker.
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An ad on getmotivated.com touts Bush as the “special guest speaker” for the “Get Motivated Business Seminar” Oct. 26 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Bush headlines…
We owe thanks to Sid Hastings, a former photo editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for alerting us to another change in the military’s policy on photos of slain personnel in eastern Afghanistan. Hastings pointed out the update in a comment…
The U.S. military has banned journalists embedded with troops in eastern Afghanistan from photographing military personnel killed in combat.
Daryl Lang writes on the Photo District News web site — pdnonline.com:
“Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S.…
Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? Michael Massing asks in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
One could argue that most countries are miscovered through undercoverage. At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com, for example, our emphasis…
Jack Shafer, the often-irreverent media critic for Slate.com, offers some theories for why murders at Ivy League schools get so much press coverage. His column’s headline: “Murder Draped in Ivy. Why the press can’t get enough of Harvard or Yale…
In a comment on the Editors’ Desk blog post about Van Jones, Nonpartisan says:
You guys missed it….clearly. And you issued the same B.S. statement that the NY Times printed after they “missed it” as well. You guys didn’t miss, you…
A number of us at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wish we had a do-over with the Van Jones story. The first story we published about the controversy was on Saturday Sept. 5, a six-paragraph Associated Press report about Jones apologizing…
National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard is criticizing NPR’s coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death. Too much coverage overall, she says, and too little Chappaquiddick.
In a column titled “Too Much Kennedy,” Shepard writes:
There was no doubt that Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts…
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