Newspaper folks have always gone by their gut instincts in determining what stories to put on page one. A good front page mix includes stories that are important, stories that people will talk about, something to help lighten the daily load of doom, gloom, blood and ….. hmmmm, must be another word with double Os. [...]
If you live in a small town and you’re the editor of a newspaper, you’re going to have conflicts of interest. It’s not that you have conflicts but how you deal with them that ultimately tells the tale. Questions have been raised on the Mail Tribune forums about whether I have a conflict of interest in [...]
If you’re not a regular visitor to our photo galleries on the Mail Tribune Web site, you’re missing some really good work. Every time I check out what’s been posted lately, I think, “Wow, I wish we would have had that in the paper, too!” That’s definitely one of the beauties of the Web: We’re [...]
Earlier this week I responded in our Forums to some questions about the Medford school bond issue and our coverage of the story. After I posted, one regular user congratulated me (in a pleasant way, complete with a happy face emoticon) for finally registering for the Forums. Actually, I’ve been registered for a long time, but [...]
Interesting: The Medford teacher who was so concerned about her identity being revealed by the media went on the Lars Larson radio show in Portland Tuesday to do just that. The teacher, who earned notoriety by demanding to bring a gun to school, says she went on air because the school district named her in a court [...]
