Today’s news links
I slept for 10 hours last night, so I woke up groggy, but after an hour of so, I’m refreshed and reasdy to start the day with some links. All links are via the Peoria Journal Star unless otherwise noted:
- The guy who many people assumekilled his wife is upset that a year has passed and the state still has custody of his kids. So, either the Department of Family Services is protecting the cfhildren or they are keeping children away from his father. Gee, if there was only some process we could use to determine someone’s guilt or innocense, perhaps one passed on testimony and evidence, leading to a decision made by one’s peers …
- The headline reads that there’s going to be another sizzler today. Really? I checked the phone book and I could not find a Sizzler, or a Ponderosa or Bonanza for that matter.
- I have little hope that the Peoria City Council is going to do anything about its contract with Waste Management. Peoria needs to renogotiate that contract so that there is curbside recycling and mandatory trash pick up in alleys when possible instead on the curb. Won’t happen. Why should it? The council does nothing to protect its citizens against the crappy service provided by Comcast.
- An alleged journalist wrote an alleged newspaper article for an alleged newspaper, an an alleged copy desk worker slapped a headline on it that read “Peorian shot in arm after alleged dispute.” I am shocked, I say, shocked that the PJS didn’t slap the word “alleged” in front of the word “Peorian.” Was the reporter there at the birth? I think not. Thank God they slapped “alleged” in front of “dispute,” because God knows how many newspapers have been hauled into court and forced to pay millions and millions of dollars because they were so reckless as to report thast someome who ended up with a bullet in their arm was involved in some sort of “dispute.” The magic word “alleged” will surely protect them. But they still might be on the hook for calling him a Peorian.
- Silicon Valley Insider reports that the owners of the Naples Daily News are buying a building and new printing press. The cost: $95 million. Ther article fails to mention the company’s annual investments in buggy whips and 8-track tapes.
- For a collection of Luddites, the Peoria Journal Star Editorial Board made some sense yesterday by urging federal funding in support of private efforts to help evade governmentcensorship of the Internet.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
The JS could add “alledged” to their (mis)directional headlines. “Man robbed in alledged East Bluff”