Comments on: Fight the power http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/ Letters from my life | wadekwon.com Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ginny http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Ginny Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:09:58 +0000 http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/#comment-449 I don't know what a newshole is, but it sounds v. naughty. I like it. I don’t know what a newshole is, but it sounds v. naughty. I like it.

]]> By: Wade http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Wade Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:49:21 +0000 http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/#comment-439 Even worse, the paper has no consistent policy on running addresses — though most people understand that with zoning issues, it’s critical to know where the area in question actually is. Plus, Lowe’s ”private” address was running on local public access all week during broadcasts of the committee meetings. For those who didn’t see the background story, Travis Armstrong, the one convicted for drunk driving, was newsworthy for a specific reason: He was the editorial writer promoted to interim publisher, all to carry out the owner’s madcap agenda. The alternative paper, the Santa Barbara Independent, nicknamed him ”Wrong Way Armstrong.” Even worse, the paper has no consistent policy on running addresses — though most people understand that with zoning issues, it’s critical to know where the area in question actually is. Plus, Lowe’s ”private” address was running on local public access all week during broadcasts of the committee meetings.

For those who didn’t see the background story, Travis Armstrong, the one convicted for drunk driving, was newsworthy for a specific reason: He was the editorial writer promoted to interim publisher, all to carry out the owner’s madcap agenda. The alternative paper, the Santa Barbara Independent, nicknamed him ”Wrong Way Armstrong.”

]]> By: Kyle http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Kyle Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:05:04 +0000 http://wadekwon.com/2006/07/09/fight-the-power/#comment-437 Interesting stuff. I would really hate to be a journalist these days. From the article: <blockquote>The departing editors said McCaw was inserting herself into editorial decisions, violating standard journalistic ethics. They said the billionaire newspaper owner killed a story about Armstrong's recent sentencing for drunk driving. They also protested management's punishment of a reporter and several editors for publishing the Montecito address where actor Rob Lowe hopes to build a mansion.</blockquote> Yikes. Tossed out for trying to write a verifiable story. That's blatantly unethical, or so it seems to me. Interesting stuff. I would really hate to be a journalist these days. From the article:

The departing editors said McCaw was inserting herself into editorial decisions, violating standard journalistic ethics. They said the billionaire newspaper owner killed a story about Armstrong’s recent sentencing for drunk driving.

They also protested management’s punishment of a reporter and several editors for publishing the Montecito address where actor Rob Lowe hopes to build a mansion.

Yikes. Tossed out for trying to write a verifiable story. That’s blatantly unethical, or so it seems to me.

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