Column Opening statements were made on Jan. 31 in a 13-year-old suit filed in 1998 by the City of St. Louis against American Tobacco, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In all, 37 plaintiffs, primarily hospitals, are targeting 11 tobacco manufacturers. “Ken Brostron, a lawyer representing the hospitals, argued that tobacco companies knew as far back
Newsroom cuts at TV stations and newspapers across the country have put a damper on investigative projects. However, in St. Louis, the Better Business Bureau is picking up the slack.
Michelle Corey, president and CEO for the BBB of Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, can point to a stable of experienced reporters the agency has picked up to help with its consumer investigations. She can also point to dozens of BBB investigations picked up for publication by news media short on staff and resources.
re than 86 years now, they still can’t get Coolidge right.
America’s 30th president has been quoted year after year with mind-numbing ignorance by newspapers and television personalities as having said that “The business of America is business.” What he said, in that speech on January 17, 1925, was: “After all, the chief business of the American people is business.”
March 2011 has been a cruel month for America’s progressives and liberals. Two of their best known voices, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert, quit their columns on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times.
Readers will miss them. Right-wingers will praise them as worthy opponents and chuckle. Does their absence from our most prestigious newspaper mean anything more significant for the progressive agenda or for journalism?
“We messed up,” said Arnie Robbins, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was referring to the paper’s not doing a news story on a rally held downtown within walking distance of the Post on Friday, March 11. It was attended by about 5,000 people, mostly members of unions in the area.
COLUMN These comments should not be discounted by my admiration for Saunders Schultz. Schultz is a sculptor, artist and renowned landscape architect with works all over the globe, including St. Louis. He is one of the founding fathers of architectural art in an environmental context and he is a long-time acquaintance. More than 26 years
Bogart Quotes Pulitzer in “Deadline – USA” By Eric Mink Journalism wallows in one existential crisis after another. Take your pick: Internet technology is killing the news profession; the Great Recession is suffocating a business model already on life support; concentration of ownership is destroying media’s vital competitive drive; the ethical vacuum around Fox News’
Post-Dispatch reporter Nick Pistor broke a story about corrosion in the Gateway Arch. The gleaming stainless steel monument, at age 45, was rusting. Pistor had driven by the Arch in January and noticed gray streaks on the legs. It didn’t look good, but it was raining so he attributed the streaks to the weather. In
