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Sierra Standoffnew
The Forest Service says our national forests must be logged to save them from fire. Was the Forest Service claiming portions of Lassen National Forest were dead and posing a fire danger just so it could allow commercial logging to proceed? It was, until Chad Hanson came along. "What the Forest Service is about to do, [Hanson] says, is large-scale commercial logging under the guise of fire prevention and
environmental restoration," Cosmo Garvin writes in Sacramento News & Review.
Dailies Launching Youth-Oriented Pubsnew
E&P's Lucia Moses looks at a batch of new daily-owned youth market publications in the works, from Gannett in Lansing, Mich., and Boise, Idaho, and from the Tribune Co., in Chicago and on Long Island. Reaching young readers is a delicate art, as alternative weeklies can attest. "The 'new generation' is newly minted every year," Chicago Newcity President Brian Hieggelke tells E&P. "Those of us who are writing about them ... the older we get, the less we should trust our instincts."
Editor & Publisher |
09-23-2002 2:17 pm |
Industry News
Is It COINTELPRO All Over Again?
In
1956, FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover created the Counter
Intelligence Program
(COINTELPRO) to infiltrate and cripple extremist
political groups, such as the Black Panthers and other African-American political groups. In the Cleveland Free Times, Daniel Gray-Kontar looks at the renewed crackdown on African-American street organizations across the nation in the post Sept. 11 world and finds that many black leaders feel the new Patriot Act is the infamous COINTELRPO with a different name.
Chicago Journalist Joins Illinois Times as Editor
Illinois Times |
09-23-2002 11:10 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Management, Illinois Times
Missouri's Harsh Gay Sex Laws Challengednew
Six men accused of having sex
in the "video-viewing" backrooms of a
porn shop are the reluctant crusaders to
reform sex laws in Missouri, one of
only four states that still bans gay
sex. Missouri would just as soon
they went away. One of the accused says
the prosecutors told him, "Look, if you
cooperate, it will go away. ... If you don't
cooperate, we're going to parade you and
your family and everybody through the
media and make your life a living hell."
They're ready for hell, writes Bruce
Rushton in the Riverfront Times.
United Front on War Coverage
John F. Sugg, Senior Editor, Creative Loafing Atlanta |
09-20-2002 8:04 pm |
Letters to the Editor
2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
Nieman Foundation at Harvard University |
09-20-2002 4:46 pm |
Press Releases
Take "Project Censored," Pleasenew
"Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press," but they should look in the mirror, Peter Byrne and Matt Palmquist write in SF Weekly. Take "Project Censored," for example, "a hallowed fixture of the
alternative press." They find nine of the 10 stories listed this year as under-reported or ignored have in fact received prominent coverage by mainstream institutions like the New York Times, and that even Mother Jones, a bastion of the left, has slammed Project Censored. SF Weekly's rival, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, each year gives the Project Censored story prominent play.
SF Weekly |
09-19-2002 10:22 am |
Industry News
The Dentist Who Etched Tojo's Teethnew
Sierra Countis of Chico News & Review interviews Jack Mallory, the Navy dentist who in 1946 made a new set of dentures for General Hideki Tojo, the notorious Japanese prime minister who ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mallory made the imprisoned general a nice set of upper dentures, with the phrase "Remember Pearl Harbor" etched upon them in Morse Code. Mallory's superior officer got wind of the prank and said, "That's funny as hell, but we could get our asses kicked for doing it."
City Paper Investigation Leads to Espionage Chargesnew
Earlier this year a Philadelphia City Paper writer received e-mails from one "Mr. Fantastic" offering information and pictures from within one of the Army's top-secret facilities, Editor Howard Altman writes. Now Maurice Threats, 21, an Army MP, has been indicted on charges of espionage and bribery. "This case came from calls that City Paper placed to us," Martin Carlson,
assistant U.S. Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, tells Altman. However, federal prosecutors won't confirm that Threats and "Mr. Fantastic" are the same person. [This is an updated version of last week's story.]
Philadelphia City Paper |
09-19-2002 11:32 am |
Industry News
Tags: Philadelphia City Paper
