Tag Lee Enterprises

On the opinion page, the mistakes are all ours Comments

Nov11

Our decisions about what editorial opinions the G-T takes and what pieces we run on the opinion page are made locally.

Newspapers and communities: A first draft Comments

Feb20

Here’s an early draft of a column that should appear in Monday’s Gazette-Times.
I’ve been working on a speech I’m scheduled to give next month on this topic: “The Future of Print Media.” Like just about everyone who works at newspapers, I get that request a lot these days.
Typically, I give some kind of guarded, careful [...]

Thinking about ‘Choose Local’ Comments

Nov26

Here’s an interesting blog from a Corvallis writer about the G-T’s “Choose Local!” campaign. It’s true, of course, as April writes, that the G-T is owned by Lee Enterprises, a publicly traded company that’s based in Davenport, Iowa; the G-T has been a Lee newspaper since 1969.
But it doesn’t follow that the G-T has no [...]

‘Pro-business’ editorials Comments

Aug7

There’s an interesting post today from the gentleman who runs a blog called “Rhetorical Wasteland” about Thursday’s G-T editorial, about the proposed deal between Evanite and the city that could give the city the land it needs to fill in a missing link in the riverfront trail system.
The post makes some interesting points — and [...]