Media Mutt Blog Archive 2008
It's Either Big News...
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 9:16am.A change in the climate?: The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram have lost all their experienced political reporters, but that doesn’t mean the journalists left behind can’t score a major scoop. Or, possibly, a major screw-up.
More Layoffs at Blethen
Submitted by Al Diamon on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 12:41pm.Late Friday afternoon, Blethen Maine Newspapers publisher Charles Cochrane issued a memo to all staff at the company’s three daily papers – the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal in Augusta and the Morning Sentinel in Waterville – announcing there would be another round
Disappearing Reporters
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 8:38pm.Missing names: It all depends on how you go about it. When the Portland Press Herald gave buyouts to seven reporters in late June, it got plenty of attention. Understandably
Stories hidden in plain sight: a cautionary fable
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 5:47am.Welcome to the idyllic Maine town of Squirmworm Bay. News here crawls around, mostly by word of mouth: across the counter at Nematode’s General Store, across the bar at the Nightcrawler Lounge, over the airwaves from WTPW otherwise known as “The Tapeworm.”
Once a week,
The Union Strikes Back
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 1:40pm.Motion commotion: The Portland Newspaper Guild has responded to a lawsuit filed in June by the Blethen Maine Newspapers, owners of the Portland Press Herald, seeking to
Dam Nice Work
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 7:53pm.Odd bedfellows: Craig Crosby, a staff writer for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, deserves positive notice for his July 8 story on the questionable relationship
One Ugly Year
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 12:40pm.It’s not my fault. I’m just the messenger. I didn’t cause this mess.
Although, to be honest, I don’t seem to have done much to prevent it.
Since the Media Mutt column began in late June of last year, the Maine media have been through some torturous twists and turns.
One Ugly Year
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 2:03pm.It’s not my fault. I’m just the messenger. I didn’t cause this mess.
Although, to be honest, I don’t seem to have done much to prevent it.
Since the Media Mutt column began in late June of last year, the Maine media have been through some torturous twists and turns. Most of them haven’t been for the better.
Missing the Point, Some Boxes, Some Punctuation and a Letter
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 6:35am.
Pitching Gets in the Way of Pitching
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 8:53pm.Bad call: On June 29, the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros were locked in a tight game in Houston. The ‘Stros held a 3-2 lead going into the ninth inning, but the Sox had the heart of their batting order coming to the plate. First place was on the line for Boston. The air
