Month: September 2004

A few posts ago, Anne Linehan credited Chronicle Outlook editor David Langworthy for a “frank column” acknowledging public concerns about shortcomings of the mainstream media. Recognizing the problem surely is a start, but my most

Recently, Texas Media Watch noted that the Chronicle was less than happy with Proposition 12, medical liability reform: When medical liability reform was on the ballot last year, the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle

The Chronicle’s David Langworthy writes an interesting Sounding Board column in Monday’s paper. He agrees that there have been some media missteps this summer which have contributed to the (growing) distrust of media. But there

The Houston Chronicle gets a mixed review from Texas Media Watch‘s Sherry Sylvester for its recent coverage of the Dan Rather fake memo flap. Sylvester blasts the Chronicle for ignoring Marian Carr Knox: The elderly

The Chronicle reported the latest light-rail “accident” on Sunday, describing it as the 61st (my count of incidents is 63): Two people suffered minor injuries after a car ran a red light and collided with

A couple of weeks ago (on September 2, to be exact), the Dallas Morning News ran a story by Terry Box on a recent study by Experian on car loans: Dallas motorists shoulder the highest

Yesterday’s excellent Washington Post article on the Dan Rather-forged memos issue includes this paragraph, toward the end of the story: “I know Dan Rather is right,” Marian Carr Knox, a former secretary in Bush’s Guard

On Friday, Kristen Mack turned in her first column as the Chronicle‘s new local-politics columnist, a spot unfilled since John Williams left the newspaper in June. It was an inauspicious start, inasmuch as it included