The T-U website needs to hold a convention for all of their regular posters, then they need to bar the doors and set the building on fire.

Comment referring to the Jacksonville Times-Union as quoted by Folio Weekly from the blog, Whacksonville.com. The comment, however, could well be applied to regular posters on any mainstream news outlet web site.

So there’s this new online newspaper that has no reporters, no editors, no fact-checkers and no advertising salespeople. Local versions of it are available in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas and Los Angeles. It sends specially programmed robots out over Twitter to glean pertinent tweets and posts them automatically with the originally links intact.

This week Al Neuharth is celebrating USA Today’s quarter-century of turning trees into the intellectual lowest common denominator. It’s hard to believe that it was just 25 years ago that virtually overnight Americans went from being human beings with complex lives to being collective cyphers in brightly colored charts and graphs.
‘This is a lot [...]

It may sound like my tin-foil hat talking but it really is fundamental to the right’s authoritarian agenda to keep the country in a perpetual state of war. But evidence of their true intent is rarely so brazenly exposed as it was this week by the intentional manipulation of a story at Rupert Murdoch’s flagship [...]

Better late than never: The Tampa Tribune reported on the hate crime vigils in memory of hate-crime murder victim Ryan Skipper set for today. A link to the article is prominently featured on the newpaper’s homepage.
The Lakeland Ledger also has posted an article about the vigils, but it is not linked from the paper’s homepage, [...]

We’re updating our list of local papers that have reported online on the upcoming vigil for hate crime victim Ryan Skipper:
The Lakeland Ledger continues to ignore or be unaware of the upcoming vigils.

Lakeland Ledger: No.
Winter Haven News Chief: Yes
Orlando Sentinel: Yes.
Tampa Tribune: No

As you can see, we added the Tampa Tribune to the list. [...]

In his President’s Day commentary, USA Today founder Al Neuharth says that he once disputed the idea the George W. Bush was America’s Worst President Ever — but now he has seen the light:
Millions of people saw through Bush’s bluster from the get-go, while the people who control the media, and thus the message, [...]