tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211287452024-03-16T03:08:34.750-04:00Northeast PA media news and gossipA one-stop source for news, links, source documents and gossip about journalism in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and environs. Send tips to nepamedia@gmail.com.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.comBlogger958125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-38995383647608709042009-06-26T22:34:00.004-04:002009-06-26T22:37:41.280-04:00T-T reporter Stacy Brown and Michael Jackson go way back<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SkWFZ4yUSJI/AAAAAAAABVQ/DQB549eVcm0/s1600-h/brownstacyontv.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 149px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SkWFZ4yUSJI/AAAAAAAABVQ/DQB549eVcm0/s320/brownstacyontv.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351830411986356370" border="0" /></a>Scranton Times-Tribune Stacy Brown has been turning up all over the place today because of his knowledge of (and book about) Michael Jackson. Brown wrote a first-person piece for the T-T about it all.<br /><br />>> <a href="http://www.wilknetwork.com/Just-Look-Over-Your-Shoulders/4684351">WILK's Steve Corbett writes about his dealings with Jackson out in California when Corbett covered Jackson's criminal trial</a>NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com95tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-22144936902225864352009-06-26T00:49:00.001-04:002009-06-26T00:51:47.376-04:00R.I.P. Michael Jackson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SkRTZVk80tI/AAAAAAAABVI/wI-rSeOFRFk/s1600-h/corbettsteve20021114ap.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SkRTZVk80tI/AAAAAAAABVI/wI-rSeOFRFk/s320/corbettsteve20021114ap.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351493951976952530" /></a>Corbett and Jackson out in California. Nov. 14, 2002. From the AP.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-90564018976187995492008-11-07T09:48:00.003-05:002008-11-07T09:52:25.425-05:00More on the Times-Tribune v. Times Leader obit flap<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SRRVahTA2ZI/AAAAAAAABTY/MxuH2PDrxxc/s1600-h/se.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SRRVahTA2ZI/AAAAAAAABTY/MxuH2PDrxxc/s320/se.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265927778406029714" border="0" /></a>• Erin Nissley of The Times-Tribune <a href="http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/11/06/news/sc_times_trib.20081106.a.pg3.tt06lawsuit_s1.2066682_top7.txt">reports in detail on the newspaper's lawsuit</a>, with remarks from lawyers on both sides as well as Larry Beaupre<br /><br />• Jen Marckini <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/Times-Shamrock_files_suit_over_TL_use_of_obituaries_11-06-2008.html">reports on the TL's point of view</a>, which is that it's perfectly fine to copy obits from legacy.com.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-58135880153778771892008-11-06T00:11:00.003-05:002008-11-06T00:30:17.834-05:00Breaking: Times-Tribune sues Times Leader, accuses it of plagarizing dozens of obits<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SRJ9r4Vz6dI/AAAAAAAABTQ/HpwYKhq5u7E/s1600-h/scrantoneditionflag.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 49px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SRJ9r4Vz6dI/AAAAAAAABTQ/HpwYKhq5u7E/s320/scrantoneditionflag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265409107161246162" border="0" /></a>Exciting! "<span>I've never seen such a vast and blatant example of plagiarism in my 40 years of journalism," Times-Tribune Managing Editor Larry Beaupre reports after the T-T sued the TL for cribbing Scranton obits for the TL's </span>Scranton edition. The T-T sued the TL in Lackawanna County for unjust enrichment, fraud, etc. Good stuff.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-39201735093793338062008-11-06T00:05:00.004-05:002008-11-06T00:11:37.380-05:00Tragic: Liar Frank Andrews Shimkus loses re-election bid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SRJ7I8F-GPI/AAAAAAAABTI/j5GxQFg0zYE/s1600-h/andrewsfrankofficial.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 280px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SRJ7I8F-GPI/AAAAAAAABTI/j5GxQFg0zYE/s320/andrewsfrankofficial.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265406307849869554" border="0" /></a>Liar – and potential perjurer – Frank Andrews Shimkus failed to get re-elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, meaning the former WYOU news director will have to take his diploma-mill advanced degrees and find work elsewhere.<br /><br />Given what has been exposed about his conduct as a state representative (hogging the per diems, crashing all the state cars, the residence issue, the potential perjury issue) it would be interesting to look more into his conduct at WYOU, especially as it connects with his political ambitions.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-67612126630620796612008-10-30T15:11:00.004-04:002008-10-30T15:44:44.786-04:00"Fearless: The Richard A. Sprague Story" coming to bookstores soon!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoKuw5jCJI/AAAAAAAABTA/0br3CCLl-mo/s1600-h/1620399_big-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 260px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoKuw5jCJI/AAAAAAAABTA/0br3CCLl-mo/s320/1620399_big-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263030913052379282" border="0" /></a>(Note: This will be the most carefully-written blog post in American history.) While it isn't labeled as such, what appears to be the official/authorized biography of Richard A. Sprague is on its way to bookstores, courtesy of our friends at the American Bar Association.<br /><br />"Richard A. Sprague's philosophy holds that the law is sacred in this land, and as a lawyer he has always had the solemn obligation to fight as hard as he could to make the law serve his client, whether the client be the people of the United States, the people of Pennsylvania, or an individual caught up in the system," the blurb on the ABA site says. "Read this compelling story of a man who wasn't afraid to risk everything to fight for his fellow man and made a difference in the legal profession."<br /><br />In short: The perfect Secret Santa gift for John Murphy!NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-63920564426567311702008-10-30T15:01:00.004-04:002008-10-30T15:44:12.927-04:00Frank Andrews Shimkus still scrapping towards election day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoFzijCnhI/AAAAAAAABS4/a_g507Y7Cek/s1600-h/shimkusengagementphoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoFzijCnhI/AAAAAAAABS4/a_g507Y7Cek/s320/shimkusengagementphoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263025497541090834" border="0" /></a>Good old Frank Andrews Shimkus, who has been a hell of a time with concussions and car crashes and judges calling him out for lying, debated the challenger for his state representative's seat the other night. Read Shari Sanger's report in The Times-Tribune.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-34239041799141011222008-10-30T14:54:00.004-04:002008-10-30T15:01:07.265-04:00Another collegiate press politics story: Elderly W-B man answers door in his underwear<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoEKOI1paI/AAAAAAAABSw/GKQgcEwvdZc/s1600-h/russianclub.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoEKOI1paI/AAAAAAAABSw/GKQgcEwvdZc/s320/russianclub.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263023688176215458" border="0" /></a>A reporter from George Washington University's student paper accompanied some College Republicans on a trip to Wilkes-Barre. One volunteer was asked if she was legally in the country. Another found an old man in his skivvies. Yum.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-89014407387848135332008-10-30T14:47:00.002-04:002008-10-30T14:53:36.074-04:00Columbia student writes about Scranton's anti-Obama Democrats<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoCSuc4xaI/AAAAAAAABSo/y3x_7j-d6oU/s1600-h/harriet-penn2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQoCSuc4xaI/AAAAAAAABSo/y3x_7j-d6oU/s320/harriet-penn2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263021635265938850" border="0" /></a>The substantial number of anti-Obama Democrats in Scranton has gotten a free pass from the press, especially concerning people like Tony Rodham, Jamie Brazil and other Hillary people who have cast their lot with McCain. A Columbia University student wrote an interesting story about the phenomenon.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-71370775698015368002008-10-27T19:12:00.005-04:002008-10-27T19:28:35.843-04:00"The project isn't as ambitious as it sounds"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZNKHXAwPI/AAAAAAAABSg/GvFK8fr7tz4/s1600-h/scrantoneditionflag.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 49px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZNKHXAwPI/AAAAAAAABSg/GvFK8fr7tz4/s320/scrantoneditionflag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261978050798600434" border="0" /></a>All of you who thought you'd never see the Times Leader try to break into the Scranton market: These are strange days indeed. After scrantonedition.com soft-launched a few weeks ago, real printed editions of the Times Leader's "Scranton edition" hit the streets today.<br /><br />Does this qualify as a shot across the bow of the Lynetts? More like a pea shooter. Or maybe just a dirty look. The content was amazingly thin, rewritten press releases and repurposed W-B copy. As Scott Wasser told the troops in a memo, "the project isn't as ambitious as it sounds." Readers have no reason to doubt him so far.<br /><br />>> <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/Good_morning__Scranton__We_rsquo_re_pleased_to_meet_you_RICHARD_L__CONNOR_EDITOR_AND_PUBLISHER_10-27-2008.html">Read Rich Connor's hearty hello to the people of Lackawanna County</a><br />>> <a href="http://nepamedia.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=325&page=1#5192">Read Managing Editor Scott Wasser's memo to the troops</a>NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-73447350213148640722008-10-27T18:59:00.003-04:002008-10-27T19:12:52.183-04:00Edward J. Lynett Jr. wins PNA lifetime acheivement award<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZKQ-l0ouI/AAAAAAAABSY/a8c6IuQRRoc/s1600-h/lynettedwardj.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 149px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZKQ-l0ouI/AAAAAAAABSY/a8c6IuQRRoc/s320/lynettedwardj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261974870169002722" border="0" /></a>Click above for The Times-Tribune's report. Kudos.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-88542005046539436142008-10-27T18:55:00.002-04:002008-10-27T18:59:03.454-04:00Ed Lewis wants to be called The Ambassador<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZHf8vPI7I/AAAAAAAABSQ/ke64t6QO8wc/s1600-h/TL_MUG_Ed_Lewis.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 287px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZHf8vPI7I/AAAAAAAABSQ/ke64t6QO8wc/s320/TL_MUG_Ed_Lewis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261971828834771890" border="0" /></a>"I’m not condoning the use of street names; my job as a crime reporter brings me in regular contact with multiple law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, defense attorneys, defendants, witnesses and victims," Ed Lewis writes. "That’s why I want to be called “The Ambassador."NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-13505132559886005832008-10-27T18:50:00.002-04:002008-10-27T18:55:17.862-04:00Connor of the TL: I heart McCain, but I still let the paper endorse Obama<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZGPG6tV0I/AAAAAAAABSI/Ont8DdYT858/s1600-h/connorrichardplaque.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SQZGPG6tV0I/AAAAAAAABSI/Ont8DdYT858/s320/connorrichardplaque.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261970439997839170" border="0" /></a>Romenesko picked up Connor's Sunday piece, where he extols the virtues of Maverick John McCain. "I could have overruled but didn’t because I believe our process was democratic, the decision a mirror of what appears to be the sentiment of many persons, perhaps even a majority," Connor writes, "and because I respect the intellectual honesty of the members of our editorial endorsement board."NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-14283695135134959882008-10-22T11:19:00.004-04:002008-10-22T11:28:39.428-04:00Mark Kandel, husband of WNEP's Marisa Burke, sentenced for providing booze to minors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SP9FYy32KDI/AAAAAAAAA5k/D7YWwuIT5mU/s1600-h/doc4889db97cd949845849903.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SP9FYy32KDI/AAAAAAAAA5k/D7YWwuIT5mU/s320/doc4889db97cd949845849903.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259999182067214386" border="0" /></a>Mark Kandel, former Scranton School Board member and NEIU bigshot -- and husband of WNEP's Marisa Burke -- was sentenced to 90 days home arrest for providing alcohol to minors at his home, The Times-Tribune reports.<br /><br />>> <a href="http://www.wnep.com/global/story.asp?s=9212842">Read WNEP's somewhat brief item</a>NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-51219876304357180422008-10-22T11:16:00.002-04:002008-10-22T11:19:53.457-04:00Josh Brodesky moving up at the Arizona Daily Star<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SP9ECFMTKxI/AAAAAAAAA5c/706nkl7QbaA/s1600-h/joshbrodesky.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SP9ECFMTKxI/AAAAAAAAA5c/706nkl7QbaA/s320/joshbrodesky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259997692336220946" border="0" /></a>Josh Brodesky, formerly of The Times-Tribune of Scranton, has been named the new real estate reporter at the Arizona Daily Star in Tuscon. Brodesky gets a shout-out (click above) from his new editor for <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/250055">coverage of the dysfunctional department of Child Protective Services there</a>. Kudos.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-63558520917762457152008-10-22T11:09:00.003-04:002008-10-22T11:15:11.938-04:00Rich Connor part of group to buy Blethen Maine Newspapers?!?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SP9CdMXm_HI/AAAAAAAAA5U/ILUFNAlTzOk/s1600-h/connorrichardplaque.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SP9CdMXm_HI/AAAAAAAAA5U/ILUFNAlTzOk/s320/connorrichardplaque.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259995959095917682" border="0" /></a>A blog in Washington state is reporting that a blog in Maine is reporting that the Portland Press Herald is reporting that Times Leader Editor/Publisher Richard Connor is part of a group trying to buy the Maine newspapers owned by the Blethen family. Connor, the Portland paper reports, was born in Maine.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-33862336818009494392008-10-18T01:15:00.007-04:002008-10-18T01:28:23.280-04:00Longtime WNEP staffer Tim Karlson dies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SPlw-hHJ3oI/AAAAAAAAA5E/SdSNkHw9Wfs/s1600-h/9191156_BG1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SPlw-hHJ3oI/AAAAAAAAA5E/SdSNkHw9Wfs/s320/9191156_BG1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258358259274342018" border="0" /></a>Karlson worked in a number of departments at WNEP going back to 1983. Condolences.<br /><br />• <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/WNEP_rsquo_s_Karlson_passes_away_at_56_10-17-2008.html">Read the TL story</a><br />• <a href="http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/10/17/news/hz_standspeak.20081017.a.pg2.hz17_karlson_s1.2022005_loc.txt">Read the CV story</a><br />• <a href="http://www.scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/10/17/sports/sc_times_trib.20081017.b.pg1.tt17karlson_s1.2021334_spo.txt">Read the Times-Tribune story</a><br />• <a href="http://bealesbites.blogspot.com/search?q=karlson">A Beale's Bites post about Karlson</a><br />• <a href="http://vincesweeney.com/2008/10/crazy-redhead.html">Vince Sweeney eulogizes Karlson on his blog</a>NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-7365280394375940242008-10-18T00:48:00.004-04:002008-10-18T01:24:56.179-04:00More on the 'kill him' controversy at Scranton's Palin rally<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SPlyKfVwscI/AAAAAAAAA5M/W_e-MNYZ3bo/s1600-h/2008TLpalinscreengrab.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SPlyKfVwscI/AAAAAAAAA5M/W_e-MNYZ3bo/s320/2008TLpalinscreengrab.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258359564468793794" border="0" /></a>• The Times-Tribune <a href="http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/10/16/news/sc_times_trib.20081016.a.pg11.tt16newsecret_s1.2018812_top8.txt">reports</a> more about what reporter Dave Singleton heard and where he heard it<br />• “<a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/TL_story_draws_national_interest_10-17-2008.html">TL story draws national interest</a>,” the TL reports, noting that their initial story drew more than 200,000 page views<br />• Singleton <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/secret-service-denies-blocking-reporters-at-palin-rallies-1017/">tells ProPublica</a> that a Secret Service flack has suggested that the story should never have been published<br />• Singleton's reporting isn't good enough for University of Scranton journalism professor Matthew Reavy, who calls the death threat story "unsupported" on <a href="http://jscranton.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/scranton-death-threat-against-obama-unfounded/">his blog</a>NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-46647570929798846112008-10-16T02:08:00.004-04:002008-10-16T02:28:23.195-04:00Times Leader: No one to corroborate Times-Tribune report of "kill him" at Palin rally<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SPba0o0UYuI/AAAAAAAAA40/6hE2fYB4vZI/s1600-h/palinscranton.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SPba0o0UYuI/AAAAAAAAA40/6hE2fYB4vZI/s320/palinscranton.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257630212846543586" /></a>Fight! The Times-Tribune of Scranton <a href="http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/10/14/news/doc48f4ba8994588930223377.txt">reported that someone yelled "kill him"</a> at the Sarah Palin rally in Scranton on Tuesday. The threat was national news, and was <a href="http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/10/15/news/doc48f610bb317c2374145512.txt">fodder for Keith Olbermann's show that night</a>. <br /><br />Andrew Seder and the Times Leader hit back hard, all but calling the story a fabrication. <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html">The story quotes the local Secret Service boss</a> as being "baffled" by the Times-Tribune story. Reporter Dave Singleton and Metro Editor Jeff Sonderman are both namechecked. The Times-Tribune <a href="http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/10/15/news/doc48f6128d24004210022010.txt">also has a story</a> about the Secret Service investigation of the threat, but omits the agency's skepticism. Discuss.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-47657216609791288122008-07-09T11:03:00.003-04:002008-07-09T11:06:18.199-04:00Connor of the TL on Starbucks and managing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHTTcnUB82I/AAAAAAAAA4s/fYBnIljZKs4/s1600-h/connorrichard_zazzle.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHTTcnUB82I/AAAAAAAAA4s/fYBnIljZKs4/s320/connorrichard_zazzle.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221030356572042082" /></a>Have you noticed how those Starbucks coffee shops! They're everywhere!NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-84929514422882406412008-07-09T10:54:00.003-04:002008-07-09T10:58:21.294-04:00Corbett walks around his old 'hood in Wilkes-Barre, mourns his zen garden<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHTRhDV7shI/AAAAAAAAA4k/O-Y_fewkfoM/s1600-h/CORBETT.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHTRhDV7shI/AAAAAAAAA4k/O-Y_fewkfoM/s320/CORBETT.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221028233792434706" /></a>Those of you who miss Corbett's Times Leader ruminations about his South River Street neighborhood -- who can forget the Japanese pine tree in the front yard? -- should read his WILK column about his recent return. His verdict: "Wilkes-Barre is miserable."NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-89646515083004929562008-07-09T10:47:00.001-04:002008-07-09T10:53:21.895-04:00Maybe having the reporter's picture with each story isn't the best idea<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHTQiqR5KdI/AAAAAAAAA4c/OFXGBV_PIek/s1600-h/nakedsheetz.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHTQiqR5KdI/AAAAAAAAA4c/OFXGBV_PIek/s320/nakedsheetz.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221027161912715730" /></a>Cumberland County isn't exactly Berwick, but any story where a naked dude walks into a Sheetz and eats a Slim Jim is a good one.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-19635483259966286482008-07-08T12:15:00.002-04:002008-07-08T12:17:09.773-04:00Murdoch not selling Ottaway (and the Pocono Record) after all<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHOS3k9QwbI/AAAAAAAAA4U/CYKAarg0fUA/s1600-h/poconorecordflag.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHOS3k9QwbI/AAAAAAAAA4U/CYKAarg0fUA/s320/poconorecordflag.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220677876563624370" /></a>Everyone worried about Times-Shamrock buying the Pocono Record can relax. Rupert is keeping the Record and the other Ottaway papers after all.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-58222928091310809712008-07-08T11:29:00.003-04:002008-07-08T11:33:45.063-04:00Farewell, nepatvnewser, we hardly knew ye<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHOH4XOHSZI/AAAAAAAAA4M/BaNLyB8EQK8/s1600-h/nepatvnewser.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHOH4XOHSZI/AAAAAAAAA4M/BaNLyB8EQK8/s320/nepatvnewser.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220665795428174226" /></a>Turns out it was a class project. Click the screen shot at left to read the farewell note from Toby, the proprietor.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21128745.post-58361601363147783882008-07-08T11:08:00.003-04:002008-07-08T11:16:42.985-04:00Ed Christine lands in Binghamton<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHODv_54QgI/AAAAAAAAA4E/N4F9jcDWUV0/s1600-h/christineed_zazzle.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KH0MMAA2opo/SHODv_54QgI/AAAAAAAAA4E/N4F9jcDWUV0/s320/christineed_zazzle.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220661253683823106" border="0" /></a>In the old news department, Ed Christine is working as news editor at the Press & Sun-Bulletin in beautiful Binghamton, N.Y. Be sure to give him a call next time you're up there taking in a B-Mets game.NEPAmediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096996915800680201noreply@blogger.com12