02.13.2008 1:03 pm
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 12:10 pm
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
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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02.06.2008 1:30 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Associated Press called Hillary Rodham Clinton the winner in Missouri’s Demcoratic primary Tuesday evening, just as the Post-Dispatch faced its first-edition deadline, shortly before 11 p.m.
Political writer Jo Mannies and political editor Christopher Ave pulled back Mannies’ story,…

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01.29.2008 1:14 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A reader today told me he thought we undercovered the endorsements of Obama by Ted and Caroline Kennedy.
He missed the small items that ran inside Sunday’s and Monday’s main news sections. On Page A11 Sunday, midway down the “candidate updates”…

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01.28.2008 12:33 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Favorite son rides a “rock star” vibe,” read the biggest headline in Sunday’s Illinois editions of the Post-Dispatch. It was atop the story reporting presidential poll results of Illinois voters. (Sunday’s Missouri editions lead with results of the Missouri voters…

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01.25.2008 10:40 am
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
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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01.23.2008 3:05 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Post-Dispatch ran a correction this morning that misled one reader. The correction: “Anthony Shahid, who attended a ceremony in St. Louis honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was misidentified in a photo caption in Tuesday’s main news…

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01.22.2008 12:10 pm
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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