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Cover stories
Under thumb: Saint Louis University and other colleges want to control the student press
by Katy Carl
How free are student presses at Saint Louis University and around the country? While college administrators deny that recent changes affecting SLU's University News are meant to punish or limit student journalism, student editors express concern the changes will do just that.
Hosty v. Carter: A closer look
by Katy Carl
The Hosty v. Carter decision, which in March was rejected by the Supreme Court for review, came down in favor Governors State University against student journalists.
Feature stories
Moving backwards: Network news losing battle of gravitas
by David Vaina
It was fast out of the gate but clearly it hasn't been an easy fall for CBS News and its new anchor Katie Couric. She debuted with an astonishing 13.6 million viewers back in September, an increase of roughly 80 percent over Bob Schieffer's ratings when he stepped down and the largest audience for CBS News in eight years. But after her first week, and after the curiosity factor had long disappeared, her audience began to shrink...
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Columns
Off the Record:
Not hungry: Politicians, bureaucrats and euphemisms award.
Baby steps:Society of Professional Journalists chapter in St. Louis revived.
Advertising/Public Relations:
by Rick Stoff
Astroturf-roots campaign: The number of media available to communicators increases exponentially, day by day. Advertising and public relations people face a baffling assortment of choices. Maybe too many.
But the basics of building brand credibility are pretty much the same. The risks of ethical transgressions are pretty much the same too, although with more opportunities to transgress. With the appearance of blogs, podcasts and creative "word-of-mouth marketing" tactics, there is an infinite number of ways to commit the old sin of astroturfing.
Channels:
by Tripp Frohlichstein
4 @ 10 AOK: The big news coming from the November Nielsen ratings is that KMOV (Channel 4) took a bigger first place lead at 10 p.m. Although KSDK (Channel 5) remains the number one place for news when you add them all up (they win them all except the important 10 p.m. slot), there are signs of erosion. Channel 5's ratings year-to-year in November are down in all news time periods. Conversely, KTVI (Channel 2) continues its slow and steady pace toward higher ratings.
Sports & Media:
by Joe Pollack
No socialism for the rich: Fred Lindecke and his cohorts in the loose organization that tries to prevent public money from being spent on private stadiums can take heart. In the November elections, voters not only drove many Republicans out of office, but also kept a few rich folk from getting richer by swatting down ballot proposals to use public money on private sports stadiums.
Radio History:
by Frank Absher
WIL-St. Louis' 'Friendly Station':Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, competitive radio stations in St. Louis teamed up to run broadcasts from a special event in the city, and there were no bean counters or national programmers to raise red flags.
That's just one of the tidbits gleaned from a stash of "WIL News," weekly newsletters published by that station in the late 1920s and early '30s.
AM/FM:
by Joe Sonderman
Out Law: When you look back at the biggest radio stories in St. Louis in 2006, it seems as if most of them involve KTRS (550 AM). It was also a bad year for guys named Kramer.
Late Edition:
by Charles Klotzer
SJR's future -
Print and/or online: Within the SJR family, as probably in many print publications, an interesting discussion is in progress: should the print version be retained or should it be abandoned for a blog.
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Online columns
Early Edition --
by Ed Bishop
Save the Internet
In the 1860s and '70s, the U.S. Congress passed a series of laws governing telegraph transmissions. Since it had subsidized stringing the telegraph lines, Congress felt it had an obligation to insure that the public was treated fairly.
For example, Western Union had to transmit messages impartially in the order in which they were received-it couldn't push one person's message to the head of the line. Nor could it charge one company one rate and a different company another. And it couldn't discriminate because of content-a reporter for a Republican newspaper got the same service as a reporter for a Democratic newspaper when wiring stories.
Today, a similar concept is applied to the Internet. It's called Net Neutrality. And it's under attack.
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Politics & Media --
by Terry Jones
It's the burbs
PClaire McCaskill's recreational vehicle heading down Missouri's highways and byways was a recurring image in the media's coverage of the 2006 United States Senate race. The narrative was straightforward: She lost the 2004 governor's election to Matt Blunt by not doing well in outstate Missouri. In 2006, there would much more face time in small town Missouri. No longer was rural Missouri being conceded to the Republicans.
When McCaskill won on Nov. 7, many pointed to the outstate strategy as a major contributor to her victory. The numbers, however, tell a somewhat different and more complex story.
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