The Peoria Journal Star finally reported on various new developments at the airport, including that jet service to Minneapolis was coming.
David Jordan reported this on February 5. And he predicted it would be at least a month before the Peoria Journal Star picked up on the story.
He was right.
I don’t blame the staff. I...
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Local newspapers slow to report on jet service changes
If you do a lot of traveling, you really ought to read David Jordan’s blog. He’s often the ONLY source of new information about service out of the Peoria and Bloomington airpots. I know it sometimes seems like reporters are asleep, but I know how overworked they are. Sometimes, there just aren’t enough bodies...
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Journal Star ‘has ceased to be a real newspaper’ (UPDATED 2x)
I am pretty much cut off from society at work today. But I did manage to see this message:
“I can’t believe you aren’t all over the layoffs and subsequent job shifting at the JS. Today, the paper ceased to be a real newspaper, sadly. Half of the copy desk (half!) and half of the...
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PJS has countless problems with hyperbole and exageration
Compare and contrast these paragraphs from the same article in the Peoria Journal Star.
The first paragraph (emphasis mine):
Gov. Pat Quinn over the noon hour signed legislation that will save and create countless jobs at Keystone Steel & Wire Co.
Fifth paragraph
As of Jan. 1, the company had 165 salaried workers and 668 hourly workers. The...
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Journal Star is slow on the uptake
Better late than never, here is a link to David Jordan’s post abut how slow the Peoria Journal Star was to learn that the Kellar Branch is going to close. Which is odd, considering that the PJS slanted its coverage in favor of closure for years.
Jordan posted the news about two weeks before the...
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Ironic headline of the day
JS Christmas Fund: Job cuts threaten family’s Christmas.
No kidding.
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GateHouse was 6 cents per share Friday
Moody’s downgrade of GateHouse Media, and their prediction it would declare bankruptcy, had a negative effect on its stock price Friday:
GHSE had been rolling along pretty comfortably around the 20-cent level for weeks now, and at Fitz & Jen we kept waiting, frankly, for the session when we could finally report, hey, look at...
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Canton cattle stench story needed a few more phone calls
When a cattle farm gets 10 complains about stench and water run off since 1991, that merits an article in the local newspaper. But there’s something missing this Peoria Journal Star article. They quote the farm owners and they quote the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Who’s missing? Not one neighbor is quoted.
The end result is...
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Snickering at the Chicago Tribune
Think I’m tough on the Peoria Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page? Today, Rich Miller expresses some irritation with the Chicago Tribune’s editorial video poker legalization:
Today’s editorial is a long, strident, breathless slam on legalized, limited and taxed video gaming. It’s chock full of phrases that would make nutballs like Alan Keyes smile with...
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Q&A with Jennifer Towery: L3Cs and the future of the Journal Star
I was a bit surprised last year to read this headline: “The Peoria plan for saving local dailies.” I wasn’t surprised someone has a plan for saving newspapers. Just about everyone does, myself included. But I was surprised that:
There even was a Peoria plan.
It was being suggested by the The Newspaper Guild at the...
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BlogPeoria site beats Journal Star on Delta story by ONE MONTH
David Jordan reported this on Peoria Station on June 30:
PEORIA – Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection will drop its nonstop service between Peoria and Atlanta on September 1. The airline’s online schedules show two daily roundtrips through July, then one through August. Delta Connection had reduced Peoria service to just one daily roundtrip...
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GateHouse says Copley didn’t pay termination benefits
I suspected is was about this.
A little known fact of the March 13, 2007, agreement through which GateHouse Media bought the Peoria Journal Star and other Copley Press newspapers in Illinois was that Copley would pay termination benefits for certain employees.
The lawsuit filed by GateHouse against Copley on Wednesday accuses Copley of breaching...
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Transparency (and maybe some blogging) needed on the 3rd Appellate Court
The Journal Star’s award-winning editorial page opines that it is concerned at how long it took for the public to learn Illinois’ 3rd District Appellate Court ordered school shooter Dione Alexander freed.
But cases like Alexander’s, or the one concerning former Peoria attorney Robert Becker, whose conviction on a charge of sexually assaulting a child...
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Here’s something about Phil Luciano you need to know …
He’s a human being. And he has the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. And he’s accused of getting into a bar fight. And from all reports no one was injured. This is not the crime of the century, folks.
The Journal Star hasn’t allowed comments on this or other articles about the...
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Today’s news links
All links via the Peoria Journal Star, unless otherwise noted:
Phil Luciano has turned in his first “first-person” column since the incident at the Owl’s Nest, in which he is accused of striking a woman. The column os not about that incident. I am not going to bust his chops about the lack of comment...
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Sound and fury from 1 News Plaza
Tuesday’s editorial in the Peoria Journal Star reads like a passage from Shakespeare. it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Most of it is a repeat of a 1979 editorial complaining about the massive cost then of making repairs to the city’s combined storm sewer system.
But other...
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PJS: Honoring Gregory Goodrich: http://w…
PJS: Honoring Gregory Goodrich: http://www2.pjstar.com/index.php/information/article/honoring_gregory_goodrich/
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PJS: Honoring Ron Gebur: http://www2.pjs…
PJS: Honoring Ron Gebur: http://www2.pjstar.com/index.php/information/article/honoring_ron_gebur
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Lexington Hills: Peoria’s little pocket of dystopia
From today’s Peoria Journal Star:
About 1:50 a.m. Saturday, a 19-year-old Peoria man was shot at 3445 W. Sunset Lane in Lexington Hills Apartments. Police said he suffered gunshot wounds to the face and leg. They described his injuries as serious but not life-threatening.
Is it even news anymore when someone isn’t shot or getting shot...
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WEEK rounds up the usual subjects
I just saw Mike Dimmick’s report on the health of newspapers. He focused on the two big newspapers in the area — the Peoria Journal Star and the Bloomington Pantagraph.
His spoke to editors and publishers at both newspapers, and to Jennifer Towery, the reporter who heads The Newspaper Guild at the PJS. She spoke...
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