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Open today’s Argus Leader and you’ll see a couple editorials on the “public’s right to know” in the local section. Go to the next section, though, and something is missing — today’s scheduled Doonesbury comic strip. Instead, the Argus ran an old strip. Where I come from — which is the same place as much [...]            Tim March 15th, 2012 | Tags: abortion, censorship, First Amendment, local media, newspapers | Category: Media, Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostWe hear a lot lately about the struggles of traditional news media in the Internet age. But it seems a lot of people believe the damage may be self-inflicted. A new study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press indicates the fewest number of people in more than two decades believe [...] Tim September 15th, 2009 | Tags: journalism, local media, Media, television | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostFor a number of weeks, I’ve been observing the coverage of a news story in which I was somewhat involved. While I’m proud of the years I spent as a journalist, my view of the profession — already damaged when I left it — wasn’t bolstered by what I saw. I don’t think I’m breaking [...] Tim February 27th, 2009 | Tags: local media, South Dakota Supreme Court | Category: Media, Personal/Family | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThis weekend marked the end of two eras in South Dakota, one in the press and one in music. Although public knowledge for a while, Terry Woster officially said good bye Sunday with a front page column in the local daily. After 40 years in the news business, Terry took an early retirement package as [...] Tim December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: local media, Music, South Dakota miscellany | Category: Media, Music, State and local matters | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’m not going to go into any detail or comment much on the latest decision rejecting the Argus Leader‘s efforts to dismiss Dan Scott’s libel suit against it and executive editor Randell Beck. (The opinion is available in PDF format here thanks to PP.) Suffice it to say that the written opinion reflects comments I [...] Tim May 1st, 2008 | Tags: First Amendment, Law, libel, local media | Category: Law, State and local matters | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThe hectic nature of the last couple weeks combined with the frigid temperatures to turn my ambition to molasses. PP eliminated any doubt of that with a post last night that echoed exactly what I thought but was too lazy to research and write a post about. Simply summarized, it seems Argus Exec Editor Randell [...] Tim February 21st, 2008 | Tags: blogs, local media, Media | Category: Blog/Internet, Media | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s one of those things that leaves a horrible feeling in your gut. This afternoon, my RSS reader popped up a South Dakota media blog post that Ron Bender of Rapid City was killed Monday in a hit-and-run accident in Gaithersburg, Md. Ron and his wife, Muriel Shepard, were at the Rapid City Journal [...] Tim November 27th, 2007 | Tags: local media, Media | Category: Media, Personal/Family | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThe chance, however small, that our law firm might somehow become involved in the defamation lawsuit Dan Scott started this week against the Argus Leader and its editor, Randell Beck, demands circumspection. Thus, I won’t discuss or assess the merits of any allegations, the personalities or my personal views. Still, informed public discussion requires some [...] Tim August 17th, 2007 | Tags: First Amendment, journalism, Law, libel, local media, Media | Category: Law, Media | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostPrudence would dictate staying out of this but it’s kind of like when the big kid is beating up the little kid. Even though you know you’ll probably get thrashed too, something compels you to open your mouth or intervene. Okay, so this is really blogger v. blogger but one is your typical personal blog [...] Tim January 17th, 2007 | Tags: blogs, local media, Media | Category: Media, State and local matters | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostEvidently I’m not alone in lambasting the Argus for something it printed on the front of its local “news” section more than a week ago. Former U.S. Sen. Jim Abourezk has an op-ed column today pointing out what he perceives as additional inaccuracies in the newspaper’s blog entry on why the Iraq War was justified. [...] Tim January 7th, 2007 | Tags: journalism, local media, Media | Category: Media | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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