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Immigration rally fizzles

May 1, 2007 Kevin Whited

Headline on KHOU.com this morning: Thousands expected to march in immigration rally Headline on KHOU.com this evening: Few show up for immigration rally In related news, Rorschach noticed something interesting about a recent anti-immigration rally

While we're engaging in utopian fantasies…

May 1, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Jennifer Friedberg writes that some Houstonians continue to believe in METRO as an economic development organization (as opposed to a regional transit/mobility organization): Residents who attended the Southeast Corridor workshop on Wednesday night

Changes at KILT-610

April 30, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s David Barron has been keeping track of John Granato’s ongoing legal dispute with KILT-610, and tonight reports on his blog that Granato and the station have reached an agreement that ends Granato’s employment

ABC: Chron circulation down again

April 30, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Audit Bureau of Circulations has released its latest figures, and once again the news is not very good for the local Hearst daily (or very many other newspapers): Average paid weekday circulation of the

Ch-ch-ch-changes at Clear Channel

April 29, 2007 Kevin Whited

Kristen Mack, the Chronicle‘s one-woman Michael Berry Bureau, writes about the councilmember-talk host-radio programmer’s newest job: City councilman and talk show host Michael Berry, who has filled in as mayor pro tem for the past

One Casey replacement adopts his art of the smear

April 29, 2007 Kevin Whited

Last weekend when I was in New York, the Chronicle ran a revealing column by new metro writer Lisa Gray. Here’s an excerpt: Just before 12:30 p.m. almost every Tuesday, Judge James Squier leaves his

The return of Froot Loops!

April 27, 2007 Kevin Whited

We’ve been missing the Chron.com Froot Loop Bureau of late, so it was amusing to see this dispatch today: A tanker truck exploded on the Interstate 10 exchange near downtown around midnight, according to reports

From Councilmember to radio programmer?

April 26, 2007 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles posts the news that Michael Berry will be the new top dog for Clear Channel’s AM stations in Houston. Radio-Info also has the news. So, the lame-duck councilmember is effectively the

The Editorial LiveJournalists: "Late, emotional, and wrong"

April 25, 2007 Kevin Whited

Over at the Lone Star Times, Matt Bramanti writes that an editorial today “nails the Chron trifecta: Late, emotional and wrong.” That’s a great motto for the Editorial LiveJournalists, actually! Bramanti’s full critique of the

It depends on the meaning of "enamored"

April 25, 2007 Kevin Whited

Yesterday, KTRK-13’s Miya Shay posted that the shooter who sent the Chronicle‘s Ken Hoffman numerous letters over the years (some of which were published in his columns) was “enamoured [sic]” with the columnist. On KPRC-950’s

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