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- Front Porch podcasts from the WHQR newsroom
WHQR news director Catherine Welch and Star News reporter Si Cantwell sit down every once in a while to talk about local stories in a less formal but often insightful and much more in-depth way. These podcasts can be difficult to find on the WHQR website, but they’re great listening, so I’m dropping the feed [...]
- Notes on the Incredible Shrinking Newspaper
One thing that really frustrates me about the Star-News is its utter lack of effort. When something controversial occurs, the investigative part of the reporting is typically lacking.
A minor case in point: The UNCW men’s soccer team just suspended its star player for the season. Here’s how the S-N put it:
“Head coach Aidan Heaney [...]
- Letter to the editor: Cementing a dismal economic future
From me in this morning’s paper:
As a local software developer I completely reject the idea, put forth by Bob Warwick and others, that allowing the Titan Cement company to pollute the air and water, drain our aquifer, manipulate our legislative process, mislead our citizenry and then ship its profits out of the country positions us [...]
- Is Industrial Development good for us?
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 [...]
- Can a newspaper survive without the Associated Press?
What would the Star-News look like without stories provided by the Associated Press?
- I know you play music, but what do you WEAR?
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 [...]
- There’s nothing good about cancer
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 [...]
- More Fun with Maps
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 [...]