I don’t give the folks who toil away on the copy desk enough credit. So, I am pleased to give the award for Best Use of a Pun in a Headline  to whatever evil genius created the one that ran atop today’s Peoria Journal Star article about the Peoria Ballet’s new facility:
“Tutu to-do.”
Like I said [...]

In an un-bylined article, the Journal Star reported on parent company GateHouse Media’s 2nd quarter statement and conference call. It’s the first coverage the PJS has given the company since the company’s stock prices fell below $1.
The article stated that GateHouse was suspending dividend payments and was going to use the money to pay down [...]

From Editor & Publisher:
GateHouse Media is likely to default under its credit agreement unless it can negotiate an amendment to its covenants or get a cash injection from its largest stakeholder, Moody’s Investor Service says in a report downgrading the community newspaper publisher’s credit and probability of default ratings.
and
GateHouse could bump up against loan covenants, [...]

On the first trading day after its stock reached a new low, GateHouse Media saw the value of its stock plummet to an all-new low of 66 cents a share. The stock rebounded to 90 cents a share, less than what’s needed to avoid delisting on the New York Stock Exchange.
The drop is being blamed [...]

Twenty years ago, you couldn’t pick up a newspaper without reading something about AIDS and HIV. I wrote my share of them. These days, almost nothing. We assume that the disease has been beaten. There are people who walk around with an HIV infection who may never get full-blown AIDS, and there are people with [...]

The announcement came today. The Journal Star’s new Website will “go live” at about 8 p.m. Tuesday:
The new Web site should generally run faster than the current site. It features a brighter, cleaner look along with a new logo. It should also be easier for users to navigate. Depending on your Internet service provider, it [...]

From the Journal Star:

You know, if I had a bullet wound in the gut, I’d be a tad uncooperative, too.
Ken Hinton is in rare form. Bull-headed, condescending … come to think of it, that’s not rare for him at all.
Here’s my big dream: A new board and administrators at District 150. Visualize, visualize, Visualize …
The [...]

It took a more than a couple days, but the anonymous gnomes who pen official opinions on the Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page have finally editorialized about the stunning drop in violent crime from te same time last years.
As readers may recall, recently I chastised the Journal Star for failing to quote Peoria Mayor [...]

The Peoria Journal Star couldn’t find a way to mention Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis’ name even once when it devoted four stories Sunday to how the murder rate has dropped (details avaialable here).
But when they ran a story today casting doubt on the success of a committee that’s just getting off the ground, this is the [...]

Today’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page opines on teenagers who help pick up litter. They are in favor.
Still no comment on the drop in the the murder rate.

Attention newspaper editors and reporters: When you are doing a story about political bloggers, it might — just might — be a good idea to pick up the phone and, you know, talk to a political blogger.
Sunday’s Journal Star includes an article about how technology is shaping politics. There’s even a segment on how blogs [...]

The folks who are boycotting the Norwich (Connecticut) Bulletin are fighting back by offering news via hyper-local citizen journalism. The complaints? Censored and poorly edited letters to the editor, fact errors, ignoring legitimate news, boosterism in editorials.
My two cents: Some of the complaints seem to be of a partisan nature, which is fine. But you can’t [...]

Here we go again. GateHouse Media is offering a “voluntary severance package” to 220 of its 218 full-time employees at the Peoria Journal Star. The buyout is “designed to help the Journal Star offset rising expenses faced by newspapers throughout the country.”
Translation: “everyone else is doing it … “
The problem at the PJS, as I [...]

The Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria on Wednesday will see renderings of the proposed $60 million terminal planned for 2010, the Journal Star is reporting this evening. The new building will be built just west of the current terminal and preparation work is expected to take place this summer.
The existing terminal opened in May 1959 [...]

Why the picture of Gisele Bündchen in this post about the Kellar Branch? I’ll get to that in a minute.
The Peoria Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page has once again claimed that the Kellar Branch must be destroyed because it’s not needed.
As evidence, it cites the lack of massive amounts of traffic since the [...]