Tuesday, January 31, 2006

TL staffers wax nostalgic about football

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Iseman talks about his kids, Jerry Lynott talks about being a wiry motherfucker in Scranton, and Golas writes "$20 bucks." So much...
Monday, January 30, 2006

Blogger denies TL report of blogging in skivvies

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Mark Cour says he's mad as hell. Not really. But he responds to Jon Fox's tale in The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre's best-known/...

Jon Fox on Wilkes-Barre's #1 blogger

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Boxers or gym shorts? Boxers or gym shorts? Has Jon Fox ever seen boxers? Or gym shorts? Can he tell the difference? A seemingly simple ques...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

It's go time: Scranton Times shield-law appeal to be heard March 16

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That is going to be one interesting Pennsylvania Superior Court appeal. The Times, which is up to its eyeballs in a shady and very probably ...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Local WB mgr giddy about UPB merger

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Yeah, I bet things are going to work out real well. It's all effing hugs and kisses. Whatever.
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Two longtime Scranton Times reporters leave

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Rich Mates and Marita Lowman are both leaving the Scranton Times-Tribune for health reasons. Lowman worked at the Times Leader long ago, whi...

TL editor Golas to judge: Oops, I'm sorry

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TL editor Matt Golas went after a Luzerne County judge this week for the judge's allegedly mean-spirited comments in court. Turns out, t...

Behind the scenes as the TL's John Fox writes a story about a blogger

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We heard that a Wilkes-Barre blogger, Wilkes-Barre Online, has been writing about a story that's being written about the blogger. How me...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Scranton's Rock 107 makes The Office

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Kudos to Times-Shamrock's Rock 107, which was mentioned on NBC's The Office minutes ago. Dwight was trying to be the 107th caller. N...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

TL editor tells why Calvin and Hobbes are DEAD

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They sure are busting balls at the TL, what with writing at length about the comics page and all....
Thursday, January 19, 2006

New editor named for Scranton's Electric City

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The guy's name is Matt Smith. He works in the suburbs of Philadelphia (what exactly is the Princeton Packet?) and for Philadelphia Metro...

Sembrat trial postponed until Feb. 21

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Sembrat lives to die another day. The (unbylined) story reports that he needs to undergo a psych evaluatiuon. Wouldn't -that- make weird...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

No Sembrat news

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The trial date has come and gone and there's no news about former Times Leader sports writer Steve Sembrat, accused for trying to con an...

BRE, YOU, Service Electric all make nice

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You knew it would turn out like this. It's great how the cable guy cries about a couple coal country TV stations being "monopolies....

Whatever happened to getting the news and printing the news?

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Did anyone else think this was weird today? Helping the poor is certainly a good thing. But should a newspaper reporter who writes stories a...

Sembrat trial?

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Former Times Leader sports writer Steve Sembrat's kiddie-sex case was supposed to go to trial today. Will there be a follow-up item in t...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Rock 107 gets puff piece in Scranton Times, CV

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A very "positive" story about Rock 107's numbers by radio "writer" Mary Ondrako. No mention from Ondrako that her pa...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

WNEP anchor to run for Pa. legislature?

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Borys Krawczeniuk's Roderick Random tackled the question in his Saturday column, part of which we repost here (click above to read the w...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Rep. Sherwood won't call the TL's Iseman

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The TL's managing editor goes after Sherwood -- again -- over the Cynthia Ore scandal. Newspaper good. Politician bad. We get the idea.

Times reporter's statement to special prosecutor to become public

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A previously-sealed statement by Scranton Times-Tribune reporter Jennifer Henn to a special prosecutor about her dealings with the DA's ...