Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2019

This just in: "Insider Louisville to cease publishing on August 7."

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Here's the e-mail. --- A message to our readers: Insider Louisville to cease publishing on Aug. 7 , by Insider Louisville Every...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

A reminder about the origins of a civic identifier: "The shouts of the New Albanians rent the air for the return of sweet daylight."

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The following is a repeat of a previous installment of Shane's Excellent New Words, but because the topic arose on Twitter -- who is a...
Friday, June 01, 2018

Attention, News & Tribune: "Politicos take liberties when it’s nobody’s job to hold them accountable."

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"Those civic watchdogs make a difference to the bottom line." Hence my recurring point. As newspapers like the News and Tribune...
Friday, April 20, 2018

"The pressure of online advertising (makes) your favorite local news site, and many others, a fresh hell that even Dante himself couldn’t have imagined."

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One minute to read an article written at 3rd-grade level of comprehension, and two minutes to swat away the myriad advertising intrusions...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Gahan in eclipse, but what about the Solar Eclipse of August 7, 1869 as viewed in New Albany?

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The Crashers during fireworks won't ever again be as awe-inspiring as this display. Naming rights? They're a bitch -- and here...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Sacramento Valley Mirror: "I don’t see many small papers doing what we do."

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Now THIS is what I'm talking about. Thanks to the Bookseller for the link. As he notes, we've both really needed this timely remi...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: "The shouts of the New Albanians rent the air for the return of sweet daylight."

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Welcome to another installment of  SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS , a regular Wednesday feature at NA Confidential . Around this time e...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

"Chronicling America provides free access to millions of historic American newspaper pages."

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1904: Little is known about the Ohio Valley Worker . Thanks to M for the link. FREE access to MILLIONS of pages. The time-wasting po...
Friday, May 27, 2016

How Donald Duncan's second obituary came to be written.

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Photo credit: New York Times . First there was an obituary. Donald W. Duncan, 79, Ex-Green Beret and Early Critic of Vietnam War, Is...
Monday, April 11, 2016

The Chicago Defender: "American newspapers once stood for something more than a marketing plan."

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My book of the month is The Defender: How The Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America , by Ethan Michaeli. As foreign as the concept ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

File under: "Inadvertent truth in journalism."

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Associated Press in the Louisville Courier-Journal on June 8, 2015.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A Bully Called This Newspaper A Bird Cage Liner, And What Happened Next Is Incredible. Please read.

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This is sufficiently depressing to stand on its own, sans comment. Thanks (well, maybe) to my mouthpiece for the link. Print Is Down, and ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Days of rage at LEO Weekly, as non-readers remain precisely that.

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I skip out of town for a few days, and all hell breaks loose at LEO . On a personal level, I'm a big fan of Sara Havens, and as usual, K...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Caption contest.

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I'm not sure why we bother ... SBAvanti63 always wins, and I never pay the prize (how many pints do I owe him by now? I swear I'm...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

If it's a Gannett newspaper, that's gah-NET ...

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... as in net irrelevance pursuant to the hurried abandonment of journalism in favor of pandering to a vanishing readership as a glorified a...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Charlie Brooker: "Newspapers are the biggest threat to the nation's mental wellbeing."

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The United Kingdom, that is. It's classic Brit-write, with wonderful drug abuse analogies, and a topic often addressed here at NAC . The...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Radio Pyongyang is more transparent than this: Belated confirmation that Tucker is out, Grahn in at the Tribune.

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(Don't forget Monday's essential Mencken: "Homo Neanderthalensis" (1925) ... or, fundamentals of the Open Air Museum. ) In...
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Monday, July 09, 2007

The Economist strikes again: “Vote for me, dimwit.”

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I was introduced to The Economist in late 1980’s while working for a Louisville company that abstracted news articles for a then-embryonic...
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