We have noted, dozens of times, the McClatchy Mugshot Policy. Though I have never been able to find it officially published, when it was first emailed to McClatchy reporters and editors, a couple of the recipients sent it out via Twitter, which is the source of the image to the left, with the full text […]
We have noted, dozens of times, how the Lexington Herald-Leader, in going along with the McClatchy mugshot policy, has declined to print mugshots of accused defendants, even when those defendants are already convicted felons, and even when the subjects are accused of murder and are still on the loose. But now, the Herald-Leader is doing […]
Emily Darnell lives in Paducah Kentucky, at the far western end of the Bluegrass State. A story about a non-lethal stabbing, a domestic violence episode in the county seat of McCracken County, wouldn’t normally attract much interest in the Lexington Herald-Leader, but in this very ordinary case, it was ‘important’ enough for one of the […]
We are always amused when liberal groups tell us how the news should be reported, and have frequently noted how our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, told us that they would censor the news when the news didn’t fit what they wanted to tell us. Now comes The Journalist’s Resource, […]
This site has recently reported on the problems print newspapers, which are, in the end, simply updated 18th century technology, competing in the 21st century. We have noted how the Lexington Herald-Leader, once two newspapers, morning and afternoon, produced newspapers distributed widely over most of central and eastern Kentucky, is now being reduced to three […]
It was just Thursday that we reported on three absolute super-geniuses, for shooting and wounding a Lexington police detective. Well, now on what the talking heads at the Weather Channel are calling the first day of meteorological spring, we’re learning more, and it isn’t pretty. Two suspects charged for firing on Lexington police detective linked […]
We have previously noted when the Lexington Herald-Leader deliberately structured a story to conceal the sexual orientation of an offender, so I was pleasantly surprised when the newspaper told the truth on Wednesday: Former EKU professor pleads guilty to child pornography charges, prosecutors say by Taylor Six | Wednesday, January 3, 2024 | 4:08 PM […]
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States specifies: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. And thus we come to the case of George Aldridge: Man charged in 3 Lexington sexual assaults has been tied to another case, police say By Christopher Leach […]
Would it be wrong of me to retort, “Learn to code“? Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher, coined the phrase “the dismal science” to refer to economics in the 19th century, and for the print newspaper industry in the United States, economics has been a very dismal science. But in continuing to cut […]