AAN News
Houston Couple's Pain Is Network's Gainnew
Shani and Chad Walter lost one of their twin baby boys. Thanks to ABC's reality show "Houston Medical,"
thousands of Americans got to witness their pain. Audiences loved it. The Walters tell Houston Press staff writer Jennifer Mathieu they feel
taken advantage of and exploited by the production
company and a hospital eager for national
publicity.
The Battle of the Paddlenew
The St. Louis Table Tennis Club is as strong as it's been in 20 years, boasting a still-active granddaddy who had his mug spread across a Wheaties box in 1936. Up Interstate 55, a fledgling movement financed by Chicago millionaire Robert Blackwell, Jr. is afoot -- squarely aimed at making the heartland a veritable China West for U.S. table tennis, which, some believe, is a Tiger Woods away from rubbing shoulders with more popular U.S. sports. Mike Seely of the Riverfront Times looks at this pingpong phenom.
Sex in the Middle Schoolnew
Few parents are aware of the kinds of
choices many teens must now make as a
regular part of early courtship, or that
oral sex is now an issue for boys and
girls barely in their teens. LEO sent a
trio of interns, all recent local high school
graduates, into the streets of Louisville to
talk to teenagers, parents, counselors,
doctors and others about sexuality in
middle school. Joanna Richards,
Andrew Tangel and Nicole Leist
spent months researching this story, and
LEO editors "eventually had to pry it from
their hands because they just kept
digging and digging for more
information," says an editor's note.
New News Rack Law in New Yorknew
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has
signed a news rack law that regulates
where newspaper boxes can be placed
and how they must be maintained. Most
newspapers in the city backed the
legislation, which stops short of
requiring modular commercial racks.
Editor & Publisher |
09-03-2002 4:51 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Alt-Weekly Personal Ad Results in Groundbreaking Gay Partnershipnew
The first gay couple to have a commitment/civil
union announcement published in the New York Times, Daniel Gross
and Steven Goldstein,
met through a personal ad in the Washington City Paper. According to the announcement, Gross's ad read: "Nice Jewish boy, 5 feet 8 inches, 22, funny, well-read, dilettantish, self-deprecating, Ivy League, the kind of boy Mom fantasized about." He got 35 responses and one lifetime commitment.
New York Times |
09-03-2002 2:12 pm |
Industry News
How a City Paper Ad Nearly Triggered an International Incidentnew
Howard Altman, executive editor of Philadelphia City Paper, describes for AJR how a Saint Jack's Bar ad featuring the Thai King in hip-hop regalia nearly severed relations between the United States and Thailand. "It certainly was not the first advertising complaint City Paper had ever received, considering that we once printed an ad for a bar depicting the Virgin Mary with udders," Altman writes. "But this complaint was different. It was from an unhappy representative of a foreign government."
AJR |
09-03-2002 11:19 am |
Industry News
Staff Doesn't Roll Eyes When Wm.(TM) Steven Humphrey Leaves the Roomnew
The Portland Mercury just turned two, and its editor may sometimes act like a terrible two, Joseph Gallivan writes in the Portland Tribune. William Steven Humphrey's antics range from flinging gunpowder "snaps" around the room to performing obscene acts with the doorknobs at rival Willamette Week, Gallivan writes. "He's mature, and he's a little boy and he's a disgusting pervert all at once," Dan Savage tells Gallivan. "I admire how a fortysomething can use the word
'pee-pee' as much as he does," Mark Zusman, editor of Willamette Week, says.
Portland Tribune |
09-03-2002 9:51 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, The Portland Mercury
