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Thank you again to all who participated Tuesday in our contest to write Wednesday's historic front-page headline. If you read online only, I encourage you to pick up the print version to get the full effect of "Barack solid."
A bit groggily this morning, I'm checking out what other...
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We're having a newsroom contest to see who can come up with the one or two words that will be across the top of Wednesday's front page.
What's your suggestion? We need ideas for both possible winners, of course.
If the pundits are right and Obama wins big, one staffer suggested,...
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Less than a week from Election Day, only one reader has asked me when the Advocate's editorial board will offer an endorsement in the presidential race. Perhaps that's because everyone interested read the small explanation we've published regularly on the Viewpoints page.
More likely, though,...
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A reader called today to complain we published two ads promoting newspapers: one featured John McCain and the second spotlighted Barack Obama. The message in both ads: The candidates need to reach out to newspaper readers who are most likely to be well-informed and active in the political...
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I went to the VISD school board meeting tonight and I wanted to give the people interested an update. I was running late from another meeting, so I got there too late to get my name on the list to talk, but someone who has been working with this issue for over 6 months got his name on the list....
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The community portion of our Web site crashed this morning. I haven't heard yet what went wrong, but our technical folks were working hard to correct the problem.
Fortunately, the site worked fine during the heavy load of Election Night. We can't say our first effort at live video was a rousing...
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If it's Election Day, then dinner must be pizza. For newsrooms across the country, pizza is regular fare for all of the troops assembled to cover the news. It's easy, quick and generally liked by everyone.
Even though our dinner will be the same, we will be trying some new ways of covering...
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If you want to know more about what's on the ballot Tuesday, I urge you to check out Election Central.
There you'll find all of the related articles published in the Advocate leading up to Tuesday's primary. Based on where you live, you can dig deeper by clicking through our multimedia...
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When our editorial board offered its election endorsements recently, I tried to explain in a post why newspapers do this and how these positions don't affect our news coverage.
I don't know, though, whether these endorsements serve their intended purpose of encouraging voter participation or...
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I like to think elections are a lot more important than movies, although you wouldn't necessarily know that from looking at low voter turnout.
Here's what I think is the primary role of a newspaper's editorial board endorsement: Encourage voter participation. Agree or disagree,...
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Okay, here we go.
I can’t say that I’ll be making a lot of friends with this one. I have been so disheartened with the current election choices. Once again I will be voting for the lesser of 2 evils. With that in mind I figure it’s time to begin my jog towards life as a public...
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A Ron Paul supporter criticized the Advocate's coverage in a recent e-mail to reporter Rebecca Holm. I figure others may share the concern, so I've posted the note below. My response follows.
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Your closing comment was "Representative Ron Paul...
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