MediaBlog

My take on the mainstream media, especially the newspaper biz. As a former long-term Dallas Metroplex resident, this is often focused on the sometimes good, and the often not-so-good (compared either to what it could be or what it used to be) of A.H. Belo's primary publication, The Dallas Morning News.

Thursday, October 02, 2025

Once again, not getting the Gainesville Register

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 Gainesville, Texas, approximately 17,000, is the county seat of Cooke County, approximately 45,000. The paper is CHNI. Nuff ced? Current ed...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Hearst vs Alden: The Snooze between the devil and the deep blue sea

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 With Hearst, already owning Houston, San Antonio, Austin (I forgot that they bought the Stateless earlier this year, somehow) Laredo, Beau...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Publishers' Auxiliary fellates the Roswell (Daily) Record

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Not the one in Georgia.  The one in New Mexico, beloved by conspiracy theorists. Lead story in Pub Aux's July issue?  Touts local news p...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Why were politicos speaking at the Texas Press Association convention?

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Specifically, per page 6 of the July Texas Press Messenger , I'm talking about state Sen. Charles Perry, who was given the unchallenged ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Time to dog on CNHI again

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 Because it's so fun. I thought that, about 2 years ago, it had consolidated its North/North Central/East/East Central Texas (but NOT De...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Yes, Facebook IS a publisher

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At least it is in Brazil, where that country's Supreme Court ruled recently that social media companies are legally liable for user post...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

TPA contest awards thoughts

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 First, I apparently, contra an old post, misunderstood the configuration of current divisions of semiweekly and weekly papers. I have no co...
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