Posts Tagged ‘WHOI’
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I was chatting with one of the parents who unsuccessfully tried to convince District 150 to NOT gouge 45 minutes of instructional time from primary schools. His assessment mirrored my own: HOI News has presented the best coverage, hand’s down, of the whole controversy.
And this was before today’s story about how at least one school’s plans to try to count recess as physical education is contrary to a state law requiring actual physical education classes (which means recess doesn’t count). This particular newscast also included a report on how the number of guns being brought into schools might be higher than the media is being led to believe.
I’m not saying that other news organizations are ignoring the whole mess. But HOI News has made itself the station to watch if you have kids in D150 and are concerned about how the district is being run. Kudos.
Conversely, WEEK’s coverage is considered to be the weakest. Sorry Mac and Mike.
Tags: district 150, HOI, WEEK, WHOI Posted in Watchdog | 15 Comments »
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Really, I don’t want to discourage any media organization from covering neighborhood issues in Peoria. And the reporter involved in a very lovely person. But I have to scratch my head at a report saying that an East Bluff neighborhood is creating a community watch organization when the participants live on West Virginia Avenue. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: North Knoxville is the dividing line between the East Bluff and the West Bluff I know, I know. Some maps say West Virginia is in the so-called “Center Bluff,” although no one who grew up in the area when I was a kid used that phrase. I think some snobby West Bluffers created that out of thin air.
Tags: Crime, East Bluff, HOINews, peoria, West Bluff, WHOI Posted in Local, Watchdog | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
WHOI has an article briefly discussing the issue of when news organizations should print or broadcast reports of threats made to schools. The worry is that coverage might tend to reward false threat makers with attention, and that coverage of fake threats might desensitize the public, lading to an under-reaction when there is a threat that is real.
After a series of incidents it the station’s viewer area, KSDK instituted a policy “to report on school threats where some sort of action is taken by administrators, such as closing schools, searching schools with bomb-sniffing dogs, or posting rewards for information leading to the capture of threat makers.”
I think that’s workable, in that it gives journalists some direction on how to handle a breaking news story as it happens, without any on-the-spot navel gazing. But I’d just caution that the second-day coverage has to focus on whether or not the decision by school authorities was valid or not. If recent history has shown us anything, it’s that some schools virtually ignore threats while some overreact — usually because they have rigid policies.
After all, we live in an era in which 7-year-olds are suspended for drawing stick figures squirting a water pistol.
Therefore, the media has to absolutely insist that the schools and authorities have to come clean about exactly what the threat was. Look at the situation in Farmington, where a MySpace page so alarmed authorities. No one will say on the record what happened. And as is almost always the case, the public fills in the gap with speculation and rumor.
And the media shouldn’t let claims of students’ right to privacy stop them from digging. Once the police are called and classes disrupted, student privacy no longer is an issue. It’s a criminal issue, and an question of whether or not the government is doing its job. That is a matter of public concern.
Here’s an article on what the bomb threat recipient should do.
Tags: bomb threats, Police, school violence, schools, WHOI Posted in Watchdog | Comments Off
Friday, August 18th, 2006
I refuse to take sides in this, one of the great debates of our time.
Amy Paul,Jen Christensen,WMBD,WHOI
Tags: Amy Paul, Jen Christensen, WHOI, WMBD Posted in Citizen Journalism | 13 Comments »
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Edgar Sondoval reports that Paul Ferrante is leaving HOINews. He is moving to Phoenix, where his wife has a new job and he has a few leads.
His last day is Saturday.
The quetion now is this: Who moves to the vacant position?
Paul Ferrante,WHOI
Tags: Paul Ferrante, WHOI Posted in Watchdog | 7 Comments »
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
I hate to criticize HOI News, especially considering that their redesigned Web site is soooo easy on the eyes, but I have to scratch my head over their ignorance of Peoria geography.
The headline reads: Expanding business in Downtown Peoria.
Trouble is, this headline sits atop a story about expansion at the One World Cafe, located at the corner of West Main Street at University. Don’t let the words “Main Street” fool you. That location is firmly within the West Bluff.
Heh.
Back when I started this blog, one of my favorite activities was castigating the “Peoria” news media for mistakes like that — such as leaving the “east” or “West” designation off of addresses, as if it didn’t matter on what side of town had the string of arsons.
I haven’t had to do it for a while. I thought I had sufficiently embarrassed them. But not only has there been this case, but PeoriaIllinoisan caught the Journal Star trying to put Main Street Liquors — located at the corner of West Main and Sheridan — in Campustown, located about seven blocks away.
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Tags: Campustown, Journal Star, Main Street Liquors, One World Cafe, WHOI Posted in Local | 4 Comments »
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
I try to not make posts when I am upset. I usually end up saying something want to retract after I’ve had a nap.
That being said, I think I’ll wait till tomorrow to comment on Peoria and college television stations turning over raw footage of their coverage of the murder of Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye.
But I don’t expect I’ll be anything less than livid.
week,wmbd,whoi,illinois state university
Tags: illinois state university, WEEK, WHOI, WMBD Posted in Watchdog | 11 Comments »
Friday, August 26th, 2005
There are three people in the hospital — two seriously injured are being treated at a Springfield hospital’s burn unit — and the staffs of Peoria’s three television station’s are bitching at each other over who had the best coverage. I’ve seen promotional ads on the air already bragging about it.
This isn’t a knock against blogger Jeff Melbourne. Nothing in his original post is to blame.
Sickening. Competition can be healthy. This isn’t.
WMBD,WHOI,WEEK,peoria television,jeff melbourne
Tags: jeff melbourne, peoria television, WEEK, WHOI, WMBD Posted in Citizen Journalism | 18 Comments »
Friday, August 5th, 2005
Via B&C Beat:
Barrington Broadcasting CEO and former National Association of Broadcasters Joint Board Chairman James Yager will recieve the association’s Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award, named after the late president of the NAB Education Foundation.
Barrington n owns WHOI, which broadcasts out of Creve Coeur.
Barrington Broadcasting,James Yager,WHOI,National Association of Broadcasters,Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award,Creve Coeur
Tags: Barrington Broadcasting, Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award, James Yager, National Association of Broadcasters, WHOI Posted in Local | Comments Off
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Via Business Wire:
Barrington Broadcasting Corporation announced today that it has agreed to purchase all of the assets of WPDE-TV, the ABC affiliate serving Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina from Diversified Communications of Portland, Maine. The transaction is subject to FCC approval.
WHOI,Barrington Broadcast
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