Tag Archives: Mike Elrick

Fixing Free Press A-C bias

By Joel Thurtell Normally, I’m not in favor of outsourcing, especially when it involves covering local news stories. How could reporters in, say, Bangalore, India have enough background, culturally and politically, to report accurately and concisely on an American news … Continue reading

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Detroit dailies not so daily

  By Joel Thurtell For months, I’ve been reporting that the Detroit Free Press was planning to drop daily print publication and go to twice or thrice a week delivery, with the remaining four or five days of news plopped … Continue reading

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Still the daily Free Press?

Still the daily Free Press? 11/29/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell Maybe the Free Press won’t go two days a week print and all-the-time Web, as I suggested in my last column. That article reproduced an Internet site called freepressoffer.com with … Continue reading

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Kwamegate out of control

Sometimes small is big. And sometimes big is small. The steam rising from the Detroit Free Press’ revelation two weeks ago of the text messages between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff/paramour Christine Beatty has really roasted … Continue reading

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Schadengoogle and Kwame

Detroiters read some great journalism last week by Detroit Free Press reporters Jim Schaefer and Mike Elrick. The pair of journalistic sleuths pored over 14,000 text messages to produce their stories about how Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath … Continue reading

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