Media Mutt
Blast from the Past
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 8:07am.WABI-TV, Channel 5 in Bangor, fills the 90 minutes of its 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts with something unusual:
News.
I mean real news. No celebrity gossip. No blather about how they've got an exclusive. No crap.
Well, a little crap. There's this awful cooking segment, occasional boring
Munjoy's Back!
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:41pm.Pseudonymous blogger and media critic T. Cushing Munjoy has returned to action after a month-long absence due to medical problems. On March 2, Munjoy posted a short critique of Maine Sunday Telegram editor Jeannine Guttman's "tone-deaf,
That Didn't Take Long
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 4:42pm.
On Feb. 26, Sample News Group, through its subsidiary Brunswick Publishing LLC, completed its purchase of the Times Record afternoon newspaper in Brunswick from the Niven family. The new owner promptly laid off 10 employees.
According to
According to
Burning Issue
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 9:27am.If a newspaper had information that indicated a member of Congress had taken part in burning the U.S. flag to protest the war in Iraq, you'd think that would be big news. Front page. Above the fold. Giant headline.
But that's not the way things are done at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville.
Anybody Seen the Copy Editor?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 10:55pm.
From the Lewiston Sun Journal, Feb. 27, 2008:
"MEXICO - Selectmen will meet with their Rumford counterparts today to gauge interest in merging the towns, unless another snowstorm prevents it."
(The weather controls everything in that neck of the woods.)
Headline: "Home prices at
"MEXICO - Selectmen will meet with their Rumford counterparts today to gauge interest in merging the towns, unless another snowstorm prevents it."
(The weather controls everything in that neck of the woods.)
Headline: "Home prices at
The End of the Blues
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 6:41am.
Get ready for K-Love. The contemporary Christian radio network is moving into Maine in a big way, and in the process shoving aside the blues.
Since October 2007, WCYI-FM, 93.9 in Portland, has been broadcasting an all-blues format that's attracted a sizable audience across southern, central and
Since October 2007, WCYI-FM, 93.9 in Portland, has been broadcasting an all-blues format that's attracted a sizable audience across southern, central and
Information Deficit
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 7:57am.Thanks to a Feb. 14 article in the Bangor Daily News, I know something about Susan Mackey Andrews. I know she's "a longtime local resident" of Dover-Foxcroft. I know she's "a small business owner." I know she has "a lot of insight and a proven track record of working at the state level." I know she
Why is 207 So Lame?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 8:30pm.Rob Caldwell had just gotten a scoop. The co-anchor of "207," a daily newsmagazine airing at 7 p.m. on WCSH-TV in Portland and WLBZ-TV in Bangor, had scored an exclusive interview with Bill Clinton. In it, the former president discussed the mistakes he'd made while campaigning for his wife Hillary
Demand a Recount
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 6:37pm.
The box on the front page of the Feb. 10 Maine Sunday Telegram announced the latest results in the Democratic race for president. According to the Telegram, Hillary Clinton held a slight lead over Barack Obama after the previous day's caucuses by a margin of 1,084 to 1,057.
Or maybe not.
An
Or maybe not.
An
Put Your Money Where Your Editorials Are
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 4:23pm.
For more than a year, many Maine newspapers (including - gulp - some that I write for) have been editorializing against L.D. 1878. That much-maligned bill attempts to reduce state spending by about $200,000 a year by reducing the amount of ad space state and local governments buy in newspapers for public
