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Bleak reports about the local economy, disguised, journalistically, as a good news / bad news piece. According to the Star News (Good news and bad news this week for local economy, 10/25), though lower gas prices may be helping our pocketbooks, other things are dropping as well, like local businesses that have been around for […]
What would the Star-News look like without stories provided by the Associated Press?
Anyone catch the major Puff Piece on Tift Merritt in today’s S-N? A Q&A written in the first person, it features lots of exclamation points as if it was written by a 13-year-old girl (and maybe it was), plus riveting questions like:
“Are you someone who uses the same purse all the time or are you […]
Our great friend and Grove Projector Betsy Ervin, the Christopher Hitchens of cancer, writing an absolutely powerful, sacred-cow-tipping piece in the Star News opinion pages a couple of days ago:
Everyone diagnosed with cancer deserves to experience the disease in his or her own way. Some choose to be upbeat, refusing even to entertain the possibility […]
The Star-News is now offering an interactive crime map (currently in beta testing), so fearful and paranoid Wilmingtonians can see where crimes have been committed in the last 30 days. Hey, is that a breaking and entering in my neighborhood? Better get a dog. Is that a bomb threat down the road? Better call Homeland […]