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As I read Sunday’s Journal Star editorial, “Our View: Too late to turn back now on museum project,” I couldn’t help but think of that old Cornelius Bros and Sister Rose song — perhaps that was the intention of the headline writer: The Journal Star has fallen in love with the museum project. And you know [...] They’ve taken an axe to the staff. They’ve cut out whole sections of the paper, and reduced some sections to as few as four pages. What else can they cut at this point? Why, the width of the paper, of course. It seems the paper is getting a bit more narrow: “Readers will notice that [...] On Sunday’s editorial page, the Peoria Journal Star looks back at Mayor Jim Ardis’s first election campaign — the one in which he blamed then-mayor Ransburg for increased crime in Peoria — and judges Ardis’s performance by the same measure. They couch it in language of “getting beyond politics,” but make no mistake, this is [...] According to this Journal Star story, this story is supposed to be First in Print: Peoria’s population is likely going to be surpassed by Springfield and Joliet in totals once the 2010 U.S. Census figures are finalized next year. Still, Mayor Ardis says the city has done well to keep growing. LOCAL But, what have we here? [...] The Journal Star rolled out their very first paper featuring articles that appear in print at least a day before hitting the website. The idea is to differentiate the printed product from the web product, and offer paid subscribers some benefits free web surfers don’t get. So what stories did subscribers get that web-only readers didn’t? [...] Remember earlier this month when I told you how Springfield’s newspaper, the State Journal-Register, was going to be offering some articles exclusively in print before they put them up on their website? The Peoria Journal Star is going to do the same thing: Beginning Monday, you will start to see certain stories in the newspaper [...] The State Journal-Register is now publishing some of its content in print before it publishes it on the web. The lag time is unspecified. Called First in Print, the move aims to increase the value of the print edition for readers, many of whom pay to read the newspaper. Many of the articles appearing first in [...] The Journal Star Editorial Board had this to say about the recondite Kellar Branch Corridor Corporation, created by Tom Leiter: Leiter’s group was never formally hired by anybody. But it’s not as if he acted without the knowledge of the governments involved, whose elected representatives had by majority vote publicly endorsed this rail-to-trail conversion, and who could [...] I must have missed this announcement in the paper, but apparently the Journal Star is no longer going to review local theater productions. A letter to the editor today from Steve Bortolotti, President of the Peoria Players Theater Board of Directors, asks the Journal Star to reconsider: I think I speak for many in the Peoria [...] The Journal Star is no longer going to print personal bankruptcies in the paper. Let’s see, they no longer print all births, only those that people want in the paper. They charge for obituaries. Now they’re not going to print bankruptcies. They’ve cut so many staff members they can cover little more [...] |
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