Category Archives: future of newspapers

Free Press editor: “Everybody does it”

[donation] By Joel Thurtell In previous posts (see my blog category JC & Me), I wrote about how the Detroit Free Press clamped down on my reporting on ways U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit abused his congressional staffers … Continue reading

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Newspapering in Detroit = Afflicting the afflicted

By Joel Thurtell I’ve had some interesting responses to my articles about Gannett’s redlining practices. As I’ve already reported, Detroit isn’t the only community given short shrift by editors at the Detroit Free Press. I’ve lacked input from Detroit News … Continue reading

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Letter to Kwame

[donation] By Joel Thurtell Dear Mayor Kilpatrick: Yes, you are still mayor, until September 18, 2008 when you will take off the fancy dress shirt with “MAYOR” embroidered on the cuffs and put on a Wayne County Jail suit. It’s … Continue reading

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Did Kwame pack those hotels?

[donation] By Joel Thurtell Remember all that Kwamegate hype the media dished out about how bad the mayor’s scandal was for Detroit? Terrible for business. Drum, drum, drum: Kwame had to go so Detroit could recover from its text message-induced … Continue reading

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Cheap shots

By Joel Thurtell Frequent criticism of gaffes, journalistic lapses and other oddities at the Detroit Free Press is wrong — it’s taking “cheap shots” at a newspaper in its death agony. So I was told by a former Freepster. Now … Continue reading

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Newspaper redlining — made in Detroit?

By Joel Thurtell It occurs to me as I think more about newspaper redlining that in addition to discriminating geographically and demographically, the practice by newspapers is a form of censorship. The newspaper, without a formal announcement, tells a region … Continue reading

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Hold your applause, hold your nose

[donation] By Joel Thurtell Beethoven was correct: Self-coronations are disgusting affairs, full of arrogance, deceit, cunning and unbridled ambition. In 1803, the composer genius was ready to dedicate his 3rd Symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte when the First Consul of France … Continue reading

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Why Caesar quit

Joelontheroad will be back with more ’68 Chicago convention reflections next week. [donation] By Joel Thurtell Why would Number Two on the Detroit Free Press factotum pole Caesar Andrews take a buyout? I mean, the guy’s nearly on top of … Continue reading

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Adios, Caesar!

By Joel Thurtell One bigshot Detroit Free Press manager isn’t waiting to find out if the paper wins a Pulitzer for its lynch, er, excuse me, coverage of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s travails. He’s Executive Editor Caesar Andrews, a Gannett … Continue reading

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‘Comm desk’ — What’s that?

By Joel Thurtell I heard a good one the other day. The Detroit Free Press is so frantic to be Internet savvy that they’re reorganizing their Web approach. That would make it the 11,000th time. The link between traditional newsroom … Continue reading

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