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Dan Savage 'Miffed' That Pa. Candidate Returned His Checknew
Earlier this year, Dan Savage (pictured), editor of The Stranger, threw his support behind Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey Jr.'s run for the Senate. Savage sent Casey's campaign a $2,100 check, and encouraged the Seattle alt-weekly's readers to donate also -- not because he agrees with all of Casey's views, but because of his dislike for Casey's opponent, the incumbent Rick Santorum. In fact, after Santorum compared gay sex to incest and bestiality in 2003, Savage asked readers of his syndicated advice column to create a new sex-related definition for "santorum," with a memorable result. Casey's campaign learned of Savage's Santorum-related activities and returned his check, the editor announced Tuesday on Slog, The Stranger's blog. Savage is donating the money to the group Philadelphians Against Santorum instead.
The Stranger |
07-28-2006 2:07 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Dan Savage
Politician Rejects Dan Savage's Donation Over 'Vulgar' Commentsnew
Philadelphia Inquirer |
07-28-2006 2:36 pm |
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As Long as Advertisers Aren't Coddled, Who Cares Where Their Ads Run?new
BusinessWeek |
07-28-2006 7:22 am |
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Cybersquatter Takes on Advice Goddess
Amy Alkon isn't shy about expressing her opinion, as anyone who reads her syndicated column "The Advice Goddess" knows. In a July 13 blog post, Alkon offered her thoughts on a cancer-stricken teenager who was fighting a legal battle to take herbal treatment in lieu of chemotherapy. She was upset at the boy's "idiot parents" for backing him. Forrest MacGregor, the teenager's uncle, read her post and retaliated by purchasing the domain names AmyAlkon.net, AmyAlkon.biz, AmyAlkon.info, AmyAlkon.org, and AmyAlkon.us. The Advice Goddess posted an e-mail she received from MacGregor on her blog, and offered him the following bit of guidance: "Do I really seem like a good person to fuck with? Hmmm, real genius there, Forrest. Forrest, so I'm a big meanie. Don't you have a life or anything? Don't you have anything better to do?"
07-27-2006 10:43 am |
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Kennedy: The Phoenix Is a Strong Paper Because of Peter Kadzisnew
Media Nation |
07-27-2006 4:39 pm |
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Boston Globe to Sell Ads on Section Frontsnew
Editor & Publisher |
07-27-2006 7:01 am |
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Is Salt Lake City Weekly's John Saltas Replaceable?
"Over the years I paid plenty of people plenty of money to do nothing around here, and I don't want to become one of them," says Salt Lake City Weekly's owner, John Saltas, in his July 27 column. Saltas is explaining why he hasn't quit writing for the Weekly even though he's too old. "Writing for a newspaper like this one -- a newspaper with a youngish readership and embedded in a community with one of America’s youngest demographics -- should be, in my opinion, a task left to those who share the basic reference points with that readership," Saltas says. His solution: to hold a "Replace John Contest," in which readers are invited to write Saltas' column for him. Saltas isn't claiming that he will step down permanently, but the winner will be published at least once and will take home a cash prize.
07-26-2006 3:22 pm |
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Kan. Agency Changes Procedures After Article in The Pitch
The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., a state economic-development agency, announced Monday that it will document more details of investment projects, the Kansas City Star reports. The company had hired an independent law firm to review its processes after a May 4 Pitch story in which writer David Martin described a project that received funding even though its application contained easily checked inaccuracies.
07-26-2006 10:37 am |
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Phoenix Media/Communications Restructures, Names New Boston Editornew
Bill Jensen (pictured) will take the reins at the Boston Phoenix as part of its parent company's effort to assemble a staff with the right "mix of experience and youth," the Boston Globe reports this morning. Jensen was hired as the Phoenix's associate editor last year. His predecessor, Peter Kadzis, says "Bill is the hip, happening guy" who will focus in part on pop culture. Kadzis had been editor for 16 years; he now will become executive editor for Phoenix Media, which owns a radio station and a mobile marketing firm in addition to the Phoenix weeklies in Boston, Portland (Maine) and Providence (R.I.). The company's multiple operations and ability to strategize marketing across platforms may be the key to its survival in the future, Vice President Brad Mindich tells the Globe.
The Boston Globe (reg. req.) |
07-26-2006 6:19 am |
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Executive Reorganization at Phoenix Media/Communications Group
Brad Mindich to assume PM/CG Presidency
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Phoenix Media Group Press Release |
07-26-2006 1:53 pm |
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Austin Chronicle Enters 25th Year 'Still Weekly, Free, and a Little Stunned'new
The founding staff expected to stay with the Chronicle about a year, according to Editor Louis Black's note in the July 21 issue. The paper has come a long way since those early days when advertising was traded for food. Now, Black says, he has "minimal control, much less of any kind of a plan" for the Chronicle, but one focus is new interactive features on its Web site -- "just as interactivity becomes completely commonplace, with even preteens offering such on their sites." Among other changes, readers will be able to post to the Chronicle's Web site without registering. "In a way, that is why we've produced and continue to produce this paper: open dialogue as hope, discussion as information, action as resistance," Black says.
Austin Chronicle |
07-25-2006 11:43 am |
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A Case for Newspapers: Schieffer on the Joys of Reading in Printnew
CBS News |
07-25-2006 6:37 am |
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Filmmaker Kevin Smith Holds Grudge Against L.A. Weekly Critic
In 2004, L.A. Weekly Film Editor Scott Foundas was notably unimpressed by the movie Jersey Girl: "The blame for this cosmically self-indulgent disaster lies with Kevin Smith, who directs like a proud father who can't stop showing you pictures of his kids. And here's the thing: The brats are ugly," Foundas wrote. Unfortunately, Smith has a long memory, Foundas reveals in his July 19 review of Smith's latest effort, Clerks II. Foundas says he was asked to leave a press screening because Smith thought he was biased against his work. But all's well that ends well: The critic was invited to a private screening the next day after he and the filmmaker "kissed and made up.
07-24-2006 11:17 am |
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Seattle Weekly Will Take on New Times 'Look'new
Uncertainty about post-merger changes has led to multiple staff resignations at the Weekly, The Seattle Times reports. Most recently, Editor in Chief Knute Berger announced his departure, although he may continue to write for the paper. Publisher Kenny Stocker, who moved to Seattle Weekly from Riverfront Times last month, says that the new management doesn't have immediate plans for "wholesale changes," but the paper will take on some attributes common to the chain. "Some may say that's a cookie-cutter approach. All I can say is, it's worked in every market in the country," Stocker says.
The Seattle Times |
07-24-2006 7:15 am |
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Novelist Furst Appeared in Seattle Weekly First
Sunday's New York Times Book Review made note of the "devoted following" for Alan Furst's espionage thrillers -- but before he wrote bestsellers, Furst's fiction was serialized on the pages of Seattle Weekly. Editor-in-Chief Knute Berger reminds readers on his blog that the Weekly printed installments of two Furst novels in the late '70s.
07-21-2006 7:40 am |
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Tags: Editorial, Seattle Weekly
