Thursday, March 30, 2006

Casey Jones makes an April fool joke on the CV: Laff riot

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The joke may be on Casey in a few more weeks.
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The CV's Nichole Dobo gets a shout-out in The New York Times

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Kind of. The Times erroneously credited the Times Leader for a fact in its big Monday story about the KR sale when, in fact, the story came ...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The TL's Alan K. Stout enjoyed the 80s

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"And my first girlfriend, when we first met in the summer of ’85, was a pure little Madonna girl, which was a lot of fun." Transla...

The TL's Guydish writes again about the newsroom

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One week, it's Dave Iseman, Mark Jones and a metaphor contest. The next, it's Kris Wernowsky, the downtown call center, and Guydish...

Scranton message board beating up on Frank Andrews Shimkus

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The posters at Dohertydeceit.com are not fond of Frank Andrews Shimkus, the WYOU broadcaster who lied about his name for years. "Everyo...
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Wilkes-Barre Online: CV bad, TL good, WBRE Web site bad

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Wilkes-Barre's blogger-in-chief checks in with his two cents on the potential demise of the Times Leader. It would be a bad thing, he sa...

Union bids for all 12 KR orphans; no Gannett bid

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This from Wednesday's Los Angeles Times. The TL and other area papers were strangely silent, but there was nothing in the LAT story abou...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Scranton Times sues for info in case of man run over by driver

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This is kind of old news, but here is Times-Tribune Assistant Managing Editor John Murphy's letter to the Olyphant police, as well as le...

TL's Golas: More openness needed in newspaper bidding process

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Sounds like Golas would rather be bought by The Newspaper Guild than Dean Singleton. Good choice.
Monday, March 27, 2006

Morning Call visits Wilkes-Barre, writes best story so far on newspaper battle

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Joe McDermott of The Morning Call of Allentown writes the story that should have appeared in the TL, the CV or the T-T a week ago. He visits...
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CV, TL make The New York Times

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It's only as a quirky footnote, but the Wilkes-Barre newspaper situation is mentioned in The New York Times' story today about the p...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

TL publisher Pat McHugh's house is for sale

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Just around the corner from Walzer's old house in Shavertown. A cool $699k! Someone has to check out the open house and take pictures. A...
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Frank Andrews is disappeared from WYOU-TV

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It was greasy for WYOU to a) have Frank Andrews working as news director while publicly speculating about running for state office b) to hav...
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CV: The W-B newspaper war could soon end

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The story, from Nichole Dobo, is about a week late, and doesn't tell the reader anything he doesn't already know. But still worht re...
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Lynett hater from Bradford County: Don'y sell TL!

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Lisa R. Howeler of Athens writes a letter to the editor in Sunday's TL, calling Times-Shamrock newspaper a lapdog. She neglects to menti...

Guydish: Giant metaphor contest taking place in TL newsroom

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A snippet from Guydish's take on life in the TL newsroom: So last week, Managing Editor Dave Iseman, a combination class clown and schoo...
Saturday, March 25, 2006

Chris Kelly goes after Jim Tolan in the Scranton Times

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Kelly pretty much calls Tolan, a former county prison guard in Scranton, a liar. Tolan pleaded guilty Thursday to beating inmates but told r...
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Unofficials Keystone sweepstakes score: TL 20, Scranton Times 15, CV 10

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That's applying this sweepstakes formula: first place = 3 points second place = 2 points honorable mention = 1 point The TL also won wit...

TL mean to Kingston PD, chief complains

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In a letter published in the Citizens' Voice, Kingston Police Chief Keith Keiper whines about how the Times Leader has been mean to him ...

TL wins big at Keystone press awards

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"Wins big" if you count four first-place awards as winning big. Don Carey, Aimee Dilger, Dave Janoski, Casey Jones (?), Terrie Mor...