Recently added articles from St. Louis Journalism Review:
Commentary.(Cartoon)
Sep 01, 2009; Engelhardt, Tom ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Don't mess with success--we'll keep scaring people about having their health care ...
A similar story.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Etling, Jim ... I read with great interest your article about the Bosnian community newspaper SabaH. Sukrija Dzidzovic is to be congratulated for his struggles to publish a product appreciated by local, national and international readers. My grandfather endured similar struggles when he founded his ...
Sale of KFUO announced.(off the record)(Gateway Creative Broadcasting buys KFUO-FM )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; Absher, Frank ... The owners of KFUO-FM, St Louis' classical music station, are pushing forward with their effort to sell the station to a broadcaster of Christian contemporary music, in spite of growing vocal opposition to the deal. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, which has owned the ...
Limbaugh fights his critics.(off the record)(Rush Limbaugh)
Sep 01, 2009; Miller, Don ... Right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh claims that he is the victim of malicious attacks from some liberals in the media. Just prior to the announcement from St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts that Limbaugh was no longer being considered for partial ownership of the St. Louis Rams, the ...
The old snake comes again.(off the record)(Jimmy Carter)
Sep 01, 2009; Tabscott, Robert ... Former president Jimmy Carter provoked a media firestorm with his comment that "opposition to Barack Obama is motivated by racism." Various members of the press were rabid that the old warrior had gone beyond the bounds of propriety. The president wisely sidestepped the issue. ...
Buddy Blattner: a great broadcaster.(off the record)(Obituary)
Sep 01, 2009; Absher, Frank ... Much like the proverbial cat with nine lives, Buddy Blattner proved to St. Louisans several times that one man could be successful in different careers. Robert G. Blattner, known to his fans as "Buddy," died September 4 after suffering from lung cancer. He was 89. Although many ...
Papers question Chicago's red light cameras.(off the record)
Sep 01, 2009; Stoff, Rick ... Public opinion on red light cameras in the Chicago suburbs "has reached a tipping point," in part due to recent newspaper stories, said Joseph Ryan, a reporter for the Chicago Daily Herald. "There has been a growing citizen revolt against red light cameras. When you first hear ...
Burwell's flub.(off the record)(Bryan Burwell)
Sep 01, 2009; Miller, Don ... St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Bryan Burwell is also discovering this in a slightly different manner. When there are so many verifiable quotations out there that point to Limbaugh's vitriolic and arguably racist nature, Burwell chose to highlight one that apparently doesn't ...
Illegal parkers.(off the record)(KSDK Channel crew)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... It's been a tradition that local TV news crews park where they want, sometimes violating parking restrictions and never getting ticketed. Well, that's changed, at least for KSDK Channel 5, reports Jerry Berger, in his online bergersbeat.com Here's his item: "The saga that won't ...
What is greener, print or online?
Sep 01, 2009; Klotzer, Charles L. ... Print publications, unlike those online, use paper and physical delivery systems, among many other sources of energy to reach their readers. The assumption is that online publications not only save publishers considerable expense, but also that they are good for the environment ...
Post reporting on statistics flawed.(politics & media)(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Sep 01, 2009; Jones, Terry ... A social science colleague once quipped that nobody he knew ever went to journalism school because they loved mathematics and statistics. The comment was triggered by an article in that day's local newspaper which had, to put in gently, misinterpreted some public opinion polling data. ...
Twitter as newspeak.
Sep 01, 2009; Silverblatt, Art ... It can be argued that Twitter has emerged as a legitimate form of communication that could influence how children will spell--and think--in the future. Both Fox News and CNN have adopted the form and syntax of Twitter for their closed-captions, so that Twitter is no longer merely a ...
One of a kind crime reporter: Evening Whirl founder Ben Thomas 1910-2005.(Cover story)(Biography)
Sep 01, 2009; Eden, Scott ... Ben Thomas appeared as a guest on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1989. A careful dresser, he wore a navy-blue worsted suit, a shirt with red candy stripes, a red necktie, and a white pocket-square. Onto his feet he had slipped a pair of two-tone red-and-white spectator shoes. He was 79 years ...
The Evening Whirl--blood, bodies and babes.(St. Louis Evening Whirl)
Sep 01, 2009; Malone, Roy ... In the 1600s in Salem, Mass, and some of the other colonies, wrongdoers were punished by having to sit in stocks and have passersby look at them. A form of this humiliation still exists, here in St. Louis, where lawbreakers and other miscreants have their photos plastered in the pages of ...
Journalism as pop culture "how we got there".(Critical essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Salamon, George ... The New York Times Magazine now represents primarily a "jolly vacuity" and a "strident insistence on silliness." So charged Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic. This about a publication many of us once considered a combination of Foreign Affairs and The Sociological Quarterly? ...
This is not a movie set.
Sep 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is the newsroom of the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1938. The Globe occupied the building now housing the St, Louis Post-Dispatch at 900 N. Tucker Blvd. Martin Duggan said he started at the Globe in 1939 at $20 a week. But he could ...
Behind the football stories.(sports & media)
Sep 01, 2009; Pollack, Joe ... With the Mizzou football team 4-part of the Post-Dispatch sports department was leading the league in slurping the Tiger Kool-Aid from black and gold cups. Another part is busy drinking a similar beverage from blue and gold cups with the number 39 emblazoned on them. But that's ...
Local book publishers crank them out.(Ad/PR)(Reedy Press, Virginia Publishing)
Sep 01, 2009; Stoff, Rick ... "YOU CAN QUIT YOUR DAY JOB AND LIVE THE DREAM OF FULL-TIME WRITING!" screams the headline on an old magazine cover. Two St. Louis-area companies are living the dream of full-time publishing and are making money at it. But, they warn would-be authors, the window of success for a ...
The top-censored stories highlight the role of corporate America.
Sep 01, 2009; ... What would you expect in return if you gave someone $64 million? Below you'll find the answer to that question and other puzzling social and political issues among the new top censored stories just revealed by Project Censored. Full text on each story is available online at ...
Sax-playing brothers found success at KMOX.(Radio History)(Shumate Brothers)
Sep 01, 2009; Absher, Frank ... For the Shumate Brothers, it wasn't a stage mother but a stage father who did all the pushing. The push moved them through the Chautauqua circuit to a radio station in Iowa and finally to KMOX in St. Louis. After consulting with a music professional, the elder Shumate decided ...
