Tag Archives: Associated Press

Where Newspapers Go To Die (Deseret News Edition)

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Associated Press piece (via Wednesday’s Boston Globe): Deseret News in UT cutting newsroom by nearly half SALT LAKE CITY — The Deseret News, Utah’s oldest daily newspaper, said Tuesday it will cut nearly half of its staff and consolidate operations … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Deseret News, KSL Radio, KSL-TV, Mark Twain, Monitor Channel, Monitor Radio, Susan Bridge | 3 Comments

The (Ansel) Adams Family

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Excellent dustup over the purported trove of 65 alleged Ansel Adams 1930s glass negatives of Yosemite Park supposedly bought by a Fresno, CA painter for $45 ten years ago. Associated Press headline: Adams heirs skeptical about lost negatives claim Lede: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ansel Adams, art-ificial, Associated Press, garage sale, New Yorker, Rick Norsigian, Wall Street Journal, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollack?, Yosemite Park | Leave a comment

Boston Globe Botched Byline

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

I yield to no man in my admiration for intrepid New York Times war correspondent C.J. Chivers. But his byline should not have stood alone atop Monday’s Boston Globe front-page piece headlined, “Leaked archive casts stark light on Afghan war.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Afghanistan, Associated Press, Boston Globe, C.J. Chivers, Kevin Frayer, New York Times, wikidump, WikiLeaks | 2 Comments

The Great Pete Rose/Bud Harrelson Dustup

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Marty Lederhandler died last Thursday. Via the Boston Globe: Marty Lederhandler, an Associated Press photographer who captured on film every US president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-day landing in 1944, and climaxed a 66-year career with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Associated Press, Big Red Machine, Marty Lederhandler, World Trade Center | 1 Comment

New York Times Correction o’ the Day®

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

This is the best. A 65-year-old correction in Friday’s New York Times. In full: Corrections A caption on March 6, 1945, for a photograph distributed by The Associated Press that became one of the most widely published images from World … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Associated Press, Bataan Death March, corrections, New York Times | Leave a comment

Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

So it turns out (via the New York Times) that Texas executes too many people for the state’s daily newspapers to cover them all. The state has put 441 inmates to death since 1982, more than the next six states … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Associated Press, Lone Stare State, Michael Graczyk, Texas | 5 Comments

“Whatever” Is Annoying? Whatever.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Here are the results of a new Marist College poll asking which terms are “most annoying in conversation” (via the Associated Press): So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of “whatever” … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged annoying terms, Associated Press, Marist Poll, whatever | 1 Comment