Well they argued for weeks about the bailout packages and rightly thumped their chests indignantly when confronted by executive compensation packages that would make the average person blush. But Congress just couldn’t keep their own fingers out of the cookie jar. As this report in The Hill notes, “A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
The winter weather is about to hit the Palouse, and that usually is followed by some treacherous driving conditions. So slow down and take it easy. It’s also the final week or so of the academic semester, which means a good number of our local college students will be heading home in the next couple of [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
News Corp headman Robert Murdoch takes to task those who predict newspapers will disappear in an Editor and Publisher article. The head of the world’s largest media conglomerate says he thinks newspapers will very much be a part of the 21st century — a position I not only appreciate hearing about but also agree with. In [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
You can almost see the groundwork being prepared for what could be the next big battle on the Web. Copyright issues are fairly significant and, as an AP report in Editor and Publisher noted today, those issues will only intensify now that dollar figures have been attached to the issue. Here’s the link to the [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
It’s been a couple of days since the server that runs the newsroom systems decided it needed a bit of a vacation. Overall, folks have done a pretty good job of working through the challenges associated with a fairly massive computer failure. Stories, in some cases, had to be rewritten and the way we deliver pages [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
If you have read the editor’s note in the local news section, you’re familiar with the challenges associated with today’s print edition. A server crashed and our newsroom and advertising departments were sent scrambling. Stories were shuttled between editors and page designers via some thumb drives as reporters worked without our primary newsroom operating system. As [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The campaign season has finally concluded, wrapping up almost two years of presidential politicking. The elections are over, even though there are still plenty of ballots to be counted locally in Whitman County and some local races remain undecided. I’d love to hear some of your thoughts now that election day has come and gone. [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
It’s hard to even get my mouth to form the words, “seven-hundred billion,” let alone have any sense of proportion for what that number represents. The ongoing debate over the government bail-out likely will result in some compromise that has taxpayers on the hook for an immense amount of money that, to the average American, is [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
This might go down as one of the most unusual presidential elections in a long time. For almost two weeks, the bulk of the coverage nationally has been on a vice-presidential nominee. The selection of Sarah Palin also has dominated most of the debate among those who occupy the online world. Whether it’s the local listserv [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The selection of stories floating around the Internet and various news media is a pretty solid indicator that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin completely surprised most of those who consider themselves politically savvy. I figure by the end of the week we’ll have stories moving with quotes from her date to the homecoming dance [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
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