Media Mutt Blog Archive 2008
It's Money That Matters
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 4:09pm.Financial pitfall: Thomas Cushing Munjoy is back to blogging about the follies of the Portland Press Herald’s management at a new online address.
The pseudonymous critic is raising some interesting points about
Village Soup Merges Camden, Rockland Newspapers
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 9:39pm.There’ll soon be one less Village Soup newspaper. The Rockland-based chain announced today that it was merging its weekly paper in Camden, the Camden Herald, with its thrice-weekly paper in Rockland, the Courier-Gazette. The new paper will be called the Herald Gazette and will be published three
Blethen Sold
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 8:39pm.The Blethen Maine Newspapers have been sold to Maine Media Investments. According to a report on the Bollard Web site, a purchase and sale agreement was signed today, and a story on the sale will appear in tomorrow’s newspapers.
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It's 10 o'clock. Do You Know Where Your Newscast Is?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 1:00pm.Gone – almost: WCSH-TV, Channel 6 in Portland, is no longer producing a 10 p.m. newscast on WPXT-TV, Channel 51. According to the North East Radio Watch Web site, the contract between WCSH, the top-rated NBC affiliate,
It's Not Always Better Late Than Never
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 7:19pm.The ugly aftermath: The Times Record in Brunswick has finally made mention in its pages of the manslaughter conviction of Topsham selectman-elect Paul S. Bennett Jr.
But the newspaper
Snags Slow Blethen Deal
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 4:18pm.No sale – yet: A month ago, it appeared the sale of the Blethen Maine Newspapers to Maine Media Investments – a group consisting of former U.S. Sen. William Cohen, developers
A Forecaster Folds
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 5:30am.Bad forecast: The Forecaster chain of weekly papers will be one edition smaller after this week.
The parent Lewiston Sun Journal has pulled the plug on the Forecaster’s Lewiston-Auburn edition, but the move probably
Buying a News Story
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 10:47am.And now the news – brought to you by the people being covered in the news.
On Oct. 18, Portland television station WGME, Channel 13, sent anchor Kim Block and photographer Jason Nelson to Shanghai, China for nine days to report on a visit
The AP Backs Down
Submitted by Al Diamon on Sat, 10/25/2008 - 9:08am.Debate Debacle
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 7:05am.Inaccurate, inexperienced or just inarticulate? I can’t blame Larry Grard, a reporter for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, for being confused as to what Republican 2nd District congressional candidate John Frary was talking about during an Oct. 17 debate at Colby College.
