As expected (and as I predicted in my last blog), we’re being criticized on talk radio and in our own online forums for the coverage of Barack Obama’s visit. Here’s an excerpt from one response to my last blog: ”If McCain comes he’ll get half the coverage, half the video time and half the blog [...]
The news that Barack Obama is coming to Medford Saturday sent a bit of electricity through the air locally. The phone started ringing, with people asking of we had access to tickets or if we could sneak them in with a press pass. (The answer was, no we don’t have tickets and, no, we can’t [...]
A debate occurs every weekday between 4 and 4:30 p.m. at the Mail Tribune about what should appear on the next day’s front page. It’s almost always a friendly discussion, but there are occasional disagreements. The debate yesterday, such as it was, centered on whether to run a local story about county commissioner candidates or [...]
We have no scientific data to prove this, but we think we’re losing letter writers to our online forums. The Mail Tribune has traditionally run lots (and lots and lots) of letters to the editor. Our letter count has typically hovered between 2,200 and 3,000 annually, with the bigger numbers coming during election years. For 2007, however, [...]
