Odd bedfellows: Craig Crosby, a staff writer for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, deserves positive notice for his July 8 story on the questionable relationship

It’s not my fault. I’m just the messenger. I didn’t cause this mess.

Although, to be honest, I don’t seem to have done much to prevent it.

Since the Media Mutt column began in late June of last year, the Maine media have been through some torturous twists and turns.

It’s not my fault. I’m just the messenger. I didn’t cause this mess.

Although, to be honest, I don’t seem to have done much to prevent it.

Since the Media Mutt column began in late June of last year, the Maine media have been through some torturous twists and turns. Most of them haven’t been for the better.

 

Bad call: On June 29, the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros were locked in a tight game in Houston. The ‘Stros held a 3-2 lead going into the ninth inning, but the Sox had the heart of their batting order coming to the plate. First place was on the line for Boston. The air

On June 26, the same day the Portland Press Herald announced 36 job cuts and the closing of four news bureaus, it wasn’t all gloom and doom at the newspaper’s headquarters.

Well, actually it was.

But you’d never know it by the cheery memo sent to all employees –

The mastheads at the Courier Publications weeklies in Maine’s mid-coast will undergo some dramatic changes next week, according to a reliable source. On Monday at noon, Village NetMedia will take over as owner of

Fewer reporters. And maybe fewer bureaus.

The Portland Press Herald is losing seven journalists – reducing its staff to just 18 reporters – and closing as many as four bureaus in

The good news: Not many Portland Press Herald employees are going to get laid off on July 1.

The bad news: About 25 percent of the paper's reporting staff has applied for and been accepted in a voluntary termination program. According to a reliable source, at least six reporters, including several

Hurting unit: Rebekah Metzler, a reporter for the Lewiston Sun Journal, was seriously injured on June 19 at the Lost Valley Ski Resort in Auburn, while taking a ride