Entries from August 2007

30 August, 2007

Disaster in Cameroon

As someone who covers local government here in the United States, this just gets me all riled up. The editor of a weekly in Cameroon was recently given a sentence of a year in prison and a hefty fine for printing an article about possible corruption of the mayor in the provincial city, Kumbo.
The [...]

17 August, 2007

The Country Times

Well here goes nothing. This is my first attempt at reviewing a weekly newspaper. I just found a directory online of weeklies with websites and picked one more-or-less at random. Oddly enough, this one hails from near an old stomping ground of mine. The Country Today is published out of Eau [...]

7 August, 2007

First Review in Progress

I received the August 1 edition of the Country Today from Eau Claire, WI. I’ve begun work on the review and it should be up soon!
Edit: I may need to change a few of my more subjective qualities in my preliminary review model. Judging the quality of writing is not my responsibility, [...]