This article is a horrible example of journalism. It’s loaded with conclusions and no facts to back it up.
It starts off with:
Churches have long been considered safe havens from the evil of the outside world. No more.
But no where in the article, does it ever state whether there has been a marked increase in criminal [...]
Well, it looks like the usual corporate ladder rearranging is happening today as the Des Moines Register hires Carolyn Washburn to be Editor.
As I mentioned before, the Register is a management training ground for newspaper editors within Gannett. You may think the Idaho Statesman is a Knight Ridder paper, but up until August of this [...]
Des Moines Register Editor Paul Anger is leaving to be Editor at the Detroit Free Press. Here’s a
link to the story.
This is great. Anger has really done nothing for the paper in terms of news coverage and quality. Sure he can brag about Kauffman’s Pulitzer nomination, but that’s an anomaly. Overall, the paper has sucked [...]
While we were in Chicago this past weekend we visited a new chocolate shop called “Ethel’s Chocolate Lounge”. We went there with friends to pick up some dessert to bring back to their apartment. The shop is Starbucks combined with a candy store, except more expensive – 12 chocolates cost us $14. They have bon-bons [...]
Rox Laird, a Register editorial writer, has a short piece about what to do with Nollen Plaza in downtown Des Moines.
I’ve spent plenty of time eating lunch in Nollen Plaza during all seasons and I’ve never seen the “lunchtime crowds” he mentions. If you count homeless people, there are maybe a total of 20 people [...]
The Register has a great excerpt from an interview with outgoing Des Moines city manager Eric Anderson. It’s a must-read for residents of the city. (Couldn’t the Register have posted the full transcript of the interview online? They’ll never learn that bandwidth is cheaper than paper.)
Since the Register was an avid supporter of the city-county [...]
The Register notes this morning about the decling population in the city of Des Moines.
Let’s remember that this is part of a trend in the U.S. of people moving out of cities to surrounding areas (especially in the midwest and western U.S. where there is ample land around cities for development). This puts Des Moines [...]
Kyle Munson, the Des Moines Register’s music critic, has his review of the Justin Robert’s concert on Sunday at the Blank Park Zoo online. My observations from the concert are:
They need to setup the stage in a place where there is more shade. 5 p.m. during the summer sun is not the optimum time to [...]
As mentioned yesterday, here is Rob Borsellino’s own words about testifying in D.C. And he got to experience some normal Washington excitement with the threat of a plane in restricted airspace. Then he was asked:
Why Iowa?
I told him it’s a great place to raise kids, it’s easy to park and it’s very welcoming.
Rarely do you [...]
Rob Borsellino, one of the better writers for the Des Moines Register, went to Washington to testify about having ALS (known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). This Register column talks a little about the Senate hearing where he pitched his book to Senators and made other jokes. Hopefully, Rob will write his own wry piece about [...]
I decided to take my son to see the Drake Relays Parade this year. I never went to the parade while attending Drake due to it happening downtown Des Moines and being rather early in the morning for a college student. But my son and I needed to get out and he enjoys parades; the [...]
State 29 is not interested in offering comments to a reporter from the Des Moines Register. But State 29 is interested in sending readers over to the Register every chance possible. Here’s the number links to Register stories from State 29’s blog each month:
January – 35 links
February – 41 links
March – 50 links
In April, it’s [...]
Check here
and here for some great humor reading today. But these are actual news stories. First, a convenience store clerk shoots himself when adjusting his gun. And then, near Cedar Falls, we have a woman who gets rashes and headaches from EM fields, so she lives in metal trailer inside a metal barn.
Reality is so [...]
While the Register notes that Dallas County ranked number 10 in population growth from mid-2003 to mid-2004 the actual numbers are less staggering:
Dallas County’s population rose from 46,519 in July 2003 to 49,591 in July 2004, according to census estimates. That’s an increase of more than 3,000 new residents in just a year.
That’s it? Only [...]
Well the Des Moines Register entered the online-blog-youth-market with a new, currently online only, publication today. As I mentioned before,
Juice, is geared toward the already consolidating free weekly reader market. We’ll see if the MSM can be successful at being alternative.
So far the layout and design is just as crappy as DesMoinesRegister.com. Don’t they know [...]
Wal-Mart seems to have met some
problems in West Des Moines. Seems like the neighborhood doesn’t want a 24-7 store around – and Wal-Mart worked so hard to come up with reasonable building designs.
Wal-Mart will claim they are a victim of becoming too big and successful. Exactly. It happened to Microsoft, IBM, and AT&T. Why [...]
Looks like Des Moines will be down to just one alternative newspaper (for now). Business Publications Corp sold Cityview to the majority owners of Point Blank. And those new owners said they are closing up Point Blank and attempting to merge staffs. The last Point Blank is on the stands right now.
Since the Register is [...]
Normally, blogs follow the mainstream media, commenting on stories like a remora picking up scraps from the sharks. But today Erin Crawford reports on the conspiracy theory developed mostly on blogs about how former Whitehouse reporter Jeff Gannon is actually missing newspaper boy Johnny Gosch. This is great switch, blogs create news and the Register [...]
While the IowaLife section is often severly lacking in original Register content, today we got flooded with three articles by Erin Crawford. (Here, here and here). I’m not sure she’s the best to write about dining with kids (she did write a while back, “listening to a livid 2-year old howl at her first shot” [...]
The ability to combine blog and print mainstream media (like newspaper) serves as springboard for both types of media.