"Da Paper" archive
Sunday 16 September
- Dear Times-Picayune... (11:15) - Your blog format sucks. No, really. That's not a comment about the shoddy writing or the unbelievably vile comments the racist wackos who read it post. It's a technical/design remark. There's a post entitled "Gubernatorial hopefuls on the recovery" whose... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 8 December
- This is why Da Paper Sucks (14:05) - Headline today: E-mail suggests Blanco asleep at switch Implies that it's Blanco's fault that FEMA totally screwed up: An e-mail exchange on the afternoon of Aug. 28, the day before Katrina slammed into the state, indicated that Homeland Security Secretary... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 1 December
- Merging the Levee Boards - Part 3 (11:19) - Da Paper wants you to believe that anyone who is against forming a "super levee board" to take over the responsibilities of the boards managing the levee districts in the metro area is a bad politician. In particular, they're singling...
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Tuesday 19 July
- Deceptive Drew Broach... (08:50) - While I agree with Broach in his column yesterday that Alan Green should be "retired" since he was convicted in federal court, he's pretty clueless about the political fallout of Green's conviction. On Judge Martha Sassone, he writes: Judge Martha...
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Saturday 9 July
- Hurricane coverage... (11:05) - I've looked at three sites so far. It's 1125CDT and Nagin was scheduled to brief at 1100CDT. Here's what I see: Da Paper is clear and concise - Jeff Parish, voluntary evac, Nagin's not ordering/suggesting anything for the city Channel...
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Friday 17 June
- Something Da Paper will never figure out how to exploit... (07:55) - One In Five Web News Readers Use Online Instead Of those Web users who read newspapers, 20% go to the online editions of their newspapers instead of reading the print versions. [via InformationWeek] Da Paper will continue to short-change...
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Thursday 2 June
- Podcast - Top Ten Thursday (16:16) - Top Five print columnists in New Orleans 1. Ronnie Virgets - Gambit Weekly 2. Lolis Eric Elie - Times Picayune 3. Clancy DuBos - Gambit Weekly 4. Geraldine Wyckoff - OffBeat 5. James Gill - Times Picayune...
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Wednesday 1 June
- Podcast: Hump Day Politics (15:31) - Hump Day Politics State Senate election (District 6) - Julie Quinn. OPSB. Da Paper on Kenner and David Rosen....
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Friday 27 May
- Will the acquittal be Page-One news? (17:59) - Da Paper, in its continuing efforts to pander to conservatives in the metro area, ran three page-one stories about the trial of Clinton aide David Rosen in Los Angeles: 18-May Demos' hijinks may stay secret Rule 'salacious' tape off-limits, judge...
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- Marie Laveau (12:02) - Wow, it's interesting that I got a very obnoxious e-mail from someone purporting to be a tour guide earlier this week, saying that I was reckless in my description of the practice of marking the Glapion tomb in St. Louis...
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Tuesday 17 May
- Dear nola.com webmaster: (14:36) - Yet again, you and your site look pretty silly because you don't post the graphics that go with a page-one story. While this isn't as silly as the time you photo-shopped an old streetcar to make it look like a...
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Friday 13 May
- Fr. Hughes vs. Loyola University (07:06) - Da Paper does another page-one story on the pseudo-controversy between Loyola University and the Archdiocese of New Orleans. At issue is the university's plan to honor the Landrieu family with an honorary doctorate for their good works in the city....
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Thursday 17 February
- An Answer for Stephanie Grace (12:00) - In her column this morning, La Grace asks hizzoner the Mayor: Here's a question for the Nagin administration: How dumb do you think we are? I'm not a lawyer, but my friends who are tell me that the old lawyer's...
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Wednesday 16 February
- Election website... (09:45) - We all know that the Times-Picayune isn't all that proud of their website. After all, anyone who spends time in PhotoShop to turn a Riverfront streetcar into a Canal streetcar because they don't want to be bothered actually scanning a...
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