Because, Look, Mayor Tom Wants It All

Your suggestions for our Tom Leppert poster were, for the most part, undeniably strong, to the point where there’s been much bickering amongst Unfair Parkers today concerning the winning choice. There are four clear front-runners: “RAZE,” “SPEND,” “ERECT” and “HOTEL.” (Other personal favorites: “COPE,” “MARCH,” “DINERO” and “LEGACY.”) But, if…

Extra! Extra! Extra Copies!

Word out of 508 Young Street is that George Rodrigue, Dallas Morning News managing editor, has informed the staff of Dallas’s Only Daily that it’s fired up the presses this afternoon for a special reprinting of today’s paper, which is apparently historic or something? Turns out, folks have been streaming…

What’s the Good Word, Mayor Tom?

There have been many, many parodies of Shepard Fairey’s Obama “Hope” posters, few of which elicit even the faintest hint of a giggle. (Always did like the Luke Skywalker “New Hope” version, though the execution doesn’t top the concept.) What you see above is, of course, our version courtesy Observer…

Russ Martin: More Popular Than Ever

See, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I’ve recently received several emails curious in Live 105.3 talk-show host Russ Martin. Not in his “situation” per se – we’ve already covered that from incident to indictment – but more so in the fallout, if any, from his July arrest and…

Dead Men Writing

Say it ain’t so. It’s so, ain’t it? Picked up my Dallas Morning News this morning – Went into the driveway and physically picked it up. I’m a dinosaur, ridicule away. – pulled out SportsDay and had a bright idea. For Halloween I will dress as a newspaper. Nothing scarier…

Some Former Cowboys’ Fear Factor

Always a delight to dial up ESPN.com to find a piece by Frank Luksa, who’s been spending the last little while dipping into the Dallas Cowboys Bag of Memories on behalf of the Worldwide Leader. Fine by me, as today he corrals some of Tom Landry’s men to find out…

How Tim Rogers Ruined My Day

As Observer editor Mark Donald, fellow staff writer Megan Feldman and I exited our car and headed to the elevators in the parking garage at the Belo Mansion yesterday afternoon, we bumped into staffers from D Magazine. It was my first opportunity to meet Adam McGill and Zac Crain, and…

Poynter Makes “A Case for Airing Fatal Police Dashboard Video”

Courtesy the Dallas Police Department I see Sam’s Friday-afternoon breakdown of the local network affiliates’ decision to air Dallas police dashboard-cam footage is the subject of an ethics posting on The Poyner Institute’s site today. There, Kelly McBride hails Mr. Merten’s dissection of the issue — which was, should Channels…

Texas Ain’t No Toss-Up, Says NBC Producer Following Mix-Up

From Sunday’s Meet the Press, the battlegrounds? This morning, CNN’s Roland Martin takes a look at Dallas County and, sorta-kinda Harris County, and comes up with this conclusion: “Democrats may soon make Texas a competitive two-party state.” Martin’s analysis, I think it’s called, comes a mere three days after the…

Dallas Morning News Has a Smaller, But Better Audience Now

The Audit Bureau of Circulations released its latest Monday-through-Friday circ stats this morning, and The Dallas Morning News, like most of the Top 25 dailies in the country, reported a substantial drop from the same period in 2007 — nearly 10 percent, to 338,933 copies daily. But, far as A.H…

Texas Democrats Will Clean Up. Or Get Their Asses Handed to Them.

Texas A&M University Press Jon Stewart put it quite perfectly Wednesday night, when he was speaking of political pundits whose anonymous mugs have filled every last inch of TV-screen real estate in these weeks leading up to some kind of election we’re having. (Dunno, haven’t really been following it.) Said…

Dreher on News‘ “Black Friday”

On Beliefnet, Rod Dreher shines some light on the darkness spreading through 508 Young St. today: “Just came into work to find that the long-announced layoffs have commenced. A dear friend and colleague whose husband works here just learned moments ago that he got the axe. Names are rolling in,…

At This Very Moment, The News Is Laying Off Newsroom Staffers

A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the News Buyout 2008 blog, where, breaking news, Dallas’ Only Daily has begun laying off employees: “Newsroom staff members from across the building have been called into meetings and notified that they are being cut.” This follows Robert Decherd’s wage-freeze announcement…

KRLD Wants to Give Me $1,000!

Ernie and Jay are very, very generous — at least, in theory. Says so in a missive I received in the mail moments ago from 1080 on your AM dial: “Just to confirm …You’re now officially entered to win with NewsRadio 1080 KRLD AM. We’re giving away cold hard cash…

“Take This For What It’s Worth.”

Following “a long, bleak lunch today” — lucky! — the Dallas Morning News’ Crunchy Con hisself just posted to Beliefnet a piece bearing the headline “The mood among Dallas Republicans.” Which is? Aw, c’mon, read it for yourself, then add to the growing list of comments — among them one…

The Hardline One Year Later: Yay or Nay?

Better than the original? Last Sunday marked the 1-year anniversary of Greg Williams’ departure from The Ticket. On Oct. 12, 2007 – as most of you well know – Williams walked away from a Hardline remote and into a 9-month tailspin that I began chronicling with this and this and…

The Cowboys May Opt Out of their Contract with The Ticket

Come next season this ol’ thing may be out of the moth balls. Let’s play radio gossip catch-up today, shall we? I’m not raising the “Breaking News!” banner. Not directly quoting high-placed sources. But after sensing displeasure and hearing rumblings from various people in the past couple weeks, let’s call…

Greg Williams Muzzled by ESPN Radio’s Hardball

Ssh! Can you hear Greggo? Me neither. First off, congrats to ESPN Radio for being nominated for a 2008 Marconi Award. Last month in Austin it was honored by the National Association of Broadcasters as one of five finalists for Sports Station of the Year. (Curiously, The Ticket won the…