Posts Tagged ‘news’
Out, Damned Spot
STATICWhat do you get when you fill a 65-year-old pipeline with the most corrosive hydrocarbon possible, stuff so heavy that it has to be thinned with poisonous gases just to push it through the line? That’s not a joke, so don’t ...
Longtoothed Newsfolk Seek Baby Boomer Viewers
Jeff PrinceFormer TV news reporters from the equivalent of the Palaeozaic era of local journalism are returning to a small screen near you. Expect to see lots of jowls, dyed hair, and mortuary makeup –and maybe even a fresh and in...
Jane McGarry Off Air But In Hearts
Jeff PrinceNBC5 finally addressed what everybody else was talking about — one of its longtime anchors, Jane McGarry, was arrested on “suspicion of misdemeanor driving while intoxicated” on Sunday morning. She’ll re...
Aggressive Realignment
StaticPlop, plop. That’s the sound of heads being lopped. Fizz, fizz. That’s the sound of newly laid off journalists pouring cold beers into mugs to wash away their sorrows. Newspapers continue to cut costs — and lower the qual...
Cal’s State: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
A great cast saves this romance from itself.KRISTIAN LIN
Not so long ago, a movie like Crazy, Stupid, Love. would have been released at the height of Oscar season and touted for awards. This dramedy set squarely in middle-class American life recalls the 2000 Best Picture-winning Amer...
All the News Money Can Buy
StaticThis week’s cover story examines the embattled newspaper industry and ponders whether two things — paywalls and iPads — might save the day. Most readers, up to now, haven’t been willing to pay for online news, when so m...
The Incredible Shrinking Star-Telegram
Jeff Prince“Big mistake.” That was the typical response from management types at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram when I announced in February 2001 that I was jumping ship and heading to Fort Worth Weekly. The city’s only major daily ne...
Fair and Balanced at Trinity Tavern?
LAST CALLLAST CALL
Late in the afternoon a few days ago, I went looking for a place to have a beer and a sandwich. The obvious choice would’ve been Finn MacCool’s, but they stop serving food at 2 p.m., and I take serious issue with pe...
Drilling for Hardware
StaticOK, it’s not the Pulitzer Prize or the Nobel, but Fort Worth Weekly is honored to receive this year’s Environmental Reporting Award given by the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. The group hands out about a dozen statew...
Biting on a Dog
StaticWe recently reported a story about a dog who was accused of attacking an 84-year-old man (“Mimi and the Man,” Dec. 8, 2010). The 4-year-old dog, Mimi, became the biggest pit bull celebrity since Spuds MacKenzie –– thoug...