With all the huzzahs being handed out over The Dallas Morning News’ breaking-new photography Pulitzer Prize–an award that’s utterly meaningless, says Slate–seems one local media outlet’s been given short shrift concerning its own recent kudos. A few weeks ago, the Radio-Television News Directors Association handed out the regional Edward R…
A local company is investing $50 million in a new plant in southern Dallas. Let’s see, how can we make that seem like a bad thing? Hmm… See, the trouble is that the company is Belo Corp., which announced the groundbreaking for the plant on Langdon Road in a press…
Hey, I never thought former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain’s mayoral bid was a joke (my wife, on the other hand…kidding). But now that I can read about it here, in the hallowed pages of Dallas’ Only Daily, well, now I will take it very, very, very seriously. Good…
Before moving to Dallas, I rarely flew on a major carrier. Southwest was much cheaper to fly home from Utah, as was JetBlue when I lived in New York. Now that I cannot fly on either (due to the Wright Amendment, I guess) I am forced to choose between United,…
The Fort Worth Startle Gram offers tips today on how to get to “Texas Moor Speedway.” Location for fast-moving North African Muslims or destination for thrill-crazy high-altitude British fields? You decide. –Andrea Grimes…
Former Inside Edition anchor Bill O’Reilly, who apparently has gained some renown as the right-wing’s Jon Stewart, has a new favorite newspaper: your own Dallas Morning News. Actually, it’s hardly his fave; turns out, in Papa Bear’s estimation, Dallas’ Only Daily has turned so sharply to the left it’s not…
A few people fell for our Dirk Nowitzki April Fool’s prank, including Mike Rhyner and Greg Williams, hosts of “The Hardline” on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), but most people didn’t. The song did make its way around the Internet, though, which was good enough for us. One blogger called it…
Last night, I was watching my fave late-night newscast, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, during which the former ESPN’er twice aired the clip of WFAA-Channel 8 reporter Bert Lozano’s close encounter with a streaker on Sunday night. The first time Olbermann aired the clip–unedited, yech and hee-hee–was during his nightly…
Is weepy the new douchebag? Friday night, Observer Night & Day co-editor Merritt Martin and I hauled out to the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie for the Franz Ferdinand-Death Cab For Cutie show and were surprised to find ourselves in the company of a remarkably large population of frat guys…
A few weeks ago we wrote about the phenomenon known as the indigo children. The New Yorker has a follow-up about the latest step in kiddie evolution: the Dandelion Child. Best. Story. Ever. –Robert Wilonsky…
See for yourself…
Robert Decherd’s gotta be scratching his head. Yesterday, he got the good news that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, was dismissing a shareholders’ suit against the owners of The Dallas Morning News over the company’s circulation scandal that turned into quite the mess in 2004. But for…
Some folks have asked about the change in our Unfair Park blog banner–the chalk outline, the crime-scene tape. Well, yesterday we said goodbye to Big Tex, the original mascot of Unfair Park. We’d been told that we “can’t have Big Tex” because he’s a registered trademark, and the State Fair…
And so the conspiracy theories begin about just who was behind the immigration rallies that took place this week, not only in Dallas but across the country. Me, I tend to shy away from any Web site that employs Tammy Bruce as a columnist, but feel free to check it…
So it won’t seem like a big surprise when The Dallas Morning News debuts its new section geared toward busy mommies, here’s the premature announcement…oooh, perhaps that’s the wrong choice of words. No matter. Actually, the News is one of six newspapers (out of 18 that applied) dipping into the…
Former Republican strategist-turned-Republican critic Kevin Phillips, now a bestselling author with such titles as American Dynasty (about the Bush family) and Wealth and Democracy, is at it again with his brand-new tome American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. (Ah,…
I’ll admit it. I watch Deal or No Deal like a fiend. I cheer, I yell, I jeer. (If this show is a complete mystery to you, go here for a rather cynical explanation by the Freakonomics freaks.) There are contestants I love totally and ones I loathe completely. On…
Amazing the stuff you find trolling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Web site when you’ve got nothing else to do. For instance, take this little item from Belo Corp.’s Form 10-K annual report, filed with the SEC just last week: “On January 5, 2006, Infinity Radio, Inc., a subsidiary…
Steve Blow apologizes for having an opinion. I’m sure it won’t happen again. –Matt Pulle…
Last November, Texas Monthly’s Mimi Swartz artfully deconstructed tort reform and its unimagined consequences in her November 2005 story “Hurt? Injured? Need a Laywer? Too Bad!” After Swartz’s much-talked-about story appeared, the special interest group Texans for Lawsuit Reform published a 5,300-word memo that attempted to rebut Swartz’s reporting, citing…
The underperforming stock of the Belo Corp., owners of The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-Channel 8, is getting much attention today; see here and here for commentary from those who know about such things. Both stories contain this quote from Belo chairman Robert Decherd: “The advertising market has been more…
“Big Tex is a problem. He’s our Mickey Mouse.” And with those words, Nancy Wiley, a consultant to the State Fair of Texas, kindly requested that we remove Big Tex’s dorky visage from Unfair Park. Turns out Big Tex is a registered trademark–“both his name and his image,” Wiley said…
