Media Mutt Blog Archive 2008

Exclusive! You Won't Read this Anywhere Else!



If you got all your news from WGME-TV, Channel 13 in Portland, you'd have an idea of what was going on.
But just an idea. You wouldn't want to get into an argument with somebody who'd read a newspaper. Particularly, a newspaper that covers Augusta.

By television news standards, that's not

Storm Clouds in the West


The numbers look bad for the Seattle Times Co., corporate parent of the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal in Augusta and Morning Sentinel in Waterville. According to a story in the Jan. 9 edition of the Seattle

Snow Job


If you've visited the Sugarloaf ski resort in Carrabassett Valley, you may have seen WSKI-TV on the local cable system. Channel 17 carries programming promoting outdoor recreation in general and Sugarloaf in particular, although except for a somewhat-amateurish morning show (aired four days a week during