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Media: The Community Word is on the Air!

Posted in On the Media with tags , , , on March 31, 2009 by Billy Dennis

It’s still March and the April issue of the Community Word has been put on the Web and is ready for your online reading pleasure. We wanted to make a special effort to get the paper on the SWeb as early as possible because of the elections.

Roger Monroe reports that radio partner Royce Elliott was hospitalized. Roger also has his election predictions. Meanwhile Sara Browning has a wrap-up of who is on ballot. Bill Knight reports on new pollution reporing requirements, while Dale Goodner has a pro-environment message that is thousands of years old. Also, I manage to spew forth some comments about how even accused police officers have rights.

There are letters to the editor and all the regular columnists too. And check out Happenings and Briefly too. And publisher Debbie Adlof operates CW Notes? Check it out.

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Media: ‘Word on the Street’ plagiarized by Big City bullies

Posted in On the Media, Uncategorized with tags , , , , on December 2, 2008 by Billy Dennis

How many years has the Journal Star been publishing a “Word on the Street” column? Well, I don’t know exactly when, but it was before I started this blog in 2002. And I know that the Chicago Tribune created its “RedEye” edition after I started this blog.

So I was concerned when I encountered this blog on the RedEye Website:

Feh.

I know that “word on the street” is kinda a generic term. But you would have thought a media behemoth the the Chicago Tribume might have done , I dunno, a GOOGLE SEARCH before naming this thing. Perhaps they did, but thought “Pft! What’s a lightweight like the Journal Star going to do? Let ‘em sue.”

Hmmm … now that I think about it, it does kinda suck that the Journal Star would name a weekly column about local politics “Word on the Street” when there’s been a newspaper in Peoria for decades called the “Word.” Well, first, it was “West Bluff Word,” but now it’s called “The Community Word.”

So, I guess the PJS wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if they complain to the Chicago Tribune, after all.

But I wouldn’t advise Word publisher Debbie Adlof to sue the Journal Star. She might win and end up owning the damn thing. With shares selling for 6 cents each, that’s not a good thing.

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