The Tribune wins seven first place awards? LOL!
I see this morning that The Tribune has congratulated themselves in their winning of seven first place and four second place awards from California Newspaper Publishers’ Association. Are they they fricken out of their minds? Our Trib? I think there is a common internet expression that describes what many locals will feel when they read this headline: LOL! What, did they get ACORN to stuff the ballots in their favor?
I did see that no awards for given for local news or investigative reporting. And that makes sense at least. As we all know, there is more investigative reporting going on at the terrificUncoveredSLO.com than in their paper. And without this, a paper is just something to scan quickly for any sales, or to see who died, before lining your bird cage with it. Before I canceled the paper (now I read it for free on SLOnews.com), I used to read (well, scan for anything meaningful) the entire thing between the time I picked it up at the end of my driveway and the time I got to the breakfast table.
There is one award that they should have won. That is in the category of “The Highest Number of Incoherent Idiots on a Letters to the Editor Page.” In the name of “fairness,” all morons are allowed equal time. And that just wastes all of our time.
Oh, and by the way, hey could not even get their own self-congratulatory story right. They say they won seven first place awards, but they only list five first place awards! So, the reader is left wondering which is right, the headline and first paragraph, or the list of awards. What an award winning article. Not.
First-place winners are:
• Senior Staff Writer Bob Cuddy, for column writing
• The sports staff, for sports coverage
• The news design team, for page layout and design
• Senior Staff Photographer Joe Johnston, for breaking news photo and sports photo.
• Staff Photographer Jayson Mellom, for general news photo and features photo.
The second-place winners are:
• Opinion Page Editor Stephanie Finucane, for her editorial, “Verdict over quake deaths should be heard across the state.”
• Rochelle Reed, former features editor, for her piece on her son being in the Iraq war, “He’s far from home but close to her heart.”
•The features staff, for arts and entertainment coverage.
• Senior Sports Writer Brian Milne, for his story, “For surfing daredevils, it’s an ‘Endless Winter.’ ”
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Your reference to Acorn in this article shows your bias and ignorance. Acorn has not been accused or convicted of ‘ballot stuffing’. In fact, when some of the low level hirees of Acorn submitted false registration entries management blew the whistle on them. Your reference to Acorn is so typical of neo con madness, just keep parroting the lies and pretty soon many will believe (Adolph Eichmann of the the third Reich polished this strategy-Bush and his gang of crooks perfected it. Now you repeat it).
Well done, you denigrate and insult the democratic process. I wonder if the writer of this article has ever done anything to promote freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
define denigrate…