Posts Tagged ‘Star-Telegram’
The Watchdog Now Barking In Dallas
Jeff PrinceIt didn’t take long for Dave “The Watchdog” Lieber to find a job after being unceremoniously dumped by the struggling Fort Worth Star-Telegram after 20 years. Lieber announced today that he’ll begin writ...
Richard Connor Blasts Water Board (And Star-T In Roundabout Way)
Jeff PrinceFort Worth Business Press chairman Richard Connor threw a hard uppercut at the Tarrant Regional Water District’s board of directors in yesterday’s column. Pow! Among other things, he said the water board has become ...
Tarrant County Never Convicts Innocents… Except Sometimes
Andrew McLemoreFort Worth, as many local columnists love to say, is so much better than Dallas. We’ve got bike lanes, great museums and none of that hip-hop “flavor,” as Mayor Betsy Price said in this week’s cover stor...
Would You Pay To Read The Startlegram Online?
Jeff PrinceMcClatchy, the corporation that owns the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, is on its way to implementing paywalls at its papers. Don’t be surprised to log on to the Star-Telegram website before the year is done and discover you n...
Who cares about Lockheed’s machinists? Not the Pentagon
andrew.mclemoreA Star-Telegram story from yesterday quoted a defense consultant and Lockheed spokespersons as shrugging off concerns that striking machinists will have any impact on the production of F-35 jets, the most expensive — and ...
Big Brother is Alive and Well in the Fort Worth ISD —and the S-T Approves
betty.brinkFort Worth school trustee Ann Sutherland has been regularly trashed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s opinion writers from everything as legitimate as her request to board president Ray Dickerson to address her as “Dr. Suth...
Star-Telegram’s Best Boo Boo
Jeff PrinceThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram bragged on itself in this article after being named the best online newspaper by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. And there’s an editing error in the first paragraph. The lede note...
A New Definition of “Roving Reporter”
Gayle ReavesIt’s one of those things you thought you’d never actually see, like pigs flying, the Rangers in the World Series, falling ice being a health hazard at a local sports arena. The Star-Telegram posted the story on its web site...
Star-T’s Top “Local” Albums from Dallas, Denton
Anthony MarianiAnyone else a little disheartened if not downright perturbed that Fort Worth Star-Telegram pop music critic Preston Jones’ top five “local” albums of 2010 includes only one album from a Fort Worth-based band, The Orbans...
The Star-T’s Intellectual Fraudulence Problem
Anthony MarianiReaders shouldn’t expect much from the Star-Telegram’s arts and entertainment section. With the exception of film critic Chris Kelly’s work, most of the writing is pretty chummy and seems tossed off. Some of it is painful...
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