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Survey (draft)

Monday, May 7, 2007

Fired Up! Missouri brought to our attention today a story run by the Post-Dispatch. According to the story, “A poll released today by a Clayton research institute shows two-thirds of Missouri residents favor the controversial school choice legislation defeated earlier this year by the state House of Representatives.” The story goes on to explain that [...]

SLU Takes Control of Student Paper

Sunday, May 6, 2007

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The St. Louis University Board of Trustees voted last night to grant school administrators the go-ahead to replace the existing University News charter. This vote comes as a defeat for newspaper staff and editors who had hoped that the vote would be tabled until the board’s next meeting in September. According to News Editor-in-Chief Diana [...]

Pros Supporting Student Journalists

Friday, May 4, 2007

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The following letter comes from the President of the St. Louis Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists: Dear fellow journalists, The Saint Louis University board of trustees will vote Saturday morning on whether to eliminate the existing charter for the University News, the student news at SLU. If approved, the university will then rewrite a new [...]

Students Urge Trustees to Wait

Thursday, May 3, 2007

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SLU’s Student Government Association voted unanimously last night to urge the Board of Trustees to postpone any decision on the University News charter. The vote came after an extensive question and answer session, at which several University News staff were present, including Diana Benanti, the student paper’s current editor. The resolution passed by the SGA [...]

SLU Editor Speaks Out

Thursday, May 3, 2007

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Does SLPS Need a New Phone Plan?

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

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Channel 2 aired a report last night by “You Paid For It” reporter Elliott Davis on the cell phone expenses of St. Louis Public Schools officials. The report, which is apparently out of date, featured an interview with Ron Jackson, who is no longer on the school board, and included phone bills only as late as [...]

SLU Threatens Student Press

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

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A move by St. Louis University to exert a greater degree of control over its student-run newspaper has many current and past SLU journalists worried. University officials met with the student staff of the University News on April 30 to present a new version of the newspaper’s charter. The new charter would give an administration-appointed [...]

"The Real Deal" with Syl (sans Tim)

Thursday, April 26, 2007

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With co-host Tim Person away, Syl Wilson and I had some fun yesterday discussing a wide range of topics, from the field of Democratic Presidential candidates to the “Stop Snitching” movement. We also talked about Pub Def’s more prolific commenters as well as the controversy with the St. Louis Public Schools and the state of public [...]

Like Crabs in a Barrel

Thursday, April 26, 2007

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The St. Louis American is at it again. Last week, the paper which bills itself as “the” black weekly became the first media to attack the city’s first African-American ever elected as President of the Board of Aldermen â€” just two days after he was sworn in! The reason for the attack? Its anonymous “Political Eye” [...]

French on "The Real Deal" Today

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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Listen to “The Real Deal with Syl and Tim” today at 4:00 on WGNU 920AM. Syl Wilson and I will be chatting it up about hot topics while co-host Tim Person takes the day off. Check back later for video… Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

French on "The Real Deal" Today [Updated]

Thursday, April 19, 2007

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I’ll be a guest on “The Real Deal” radio show with hosts Syl Wilson and Tim Person this afternoon during the 4:00 hour on WGNU 920 AM. Topics of likely discussion include: the swearing-in of new Aldermanic President Lewis Reed and the new legislative session, the St. Louis Public Schools’ controversy, local endorsements in the 2008 [...]

Is This What We Call the News?

Monday, April 9, 2007

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Radio Person

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

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Political consultant to both the Blue and Red teams Tim Person has taken his perspective to the airwaves. Person is now co-hosting “The Real Deal” radio show with Syl Wilson. Person says the show has a “current affairs format with a little bit (or more) of politics just to make things interesting.” The show can be [...]

VIDEO: Lizz Brown with Students

Thursday, March 15, 2007

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PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Here’s video of an emotional scene yesterday when students were preparing to possibly be arrested and forcibly removed from Mayor Slay’s office. City marshals have not yet removed the students, nor has Mayor Slay yet met with them. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

Reporter Becomes the Story

Thursday, March 15, 2007

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Post-Dispatch education reporter Steve Giegerich has become a lightning rod for controversy and has for months been accused of fanning the flames of the takeover of SLPS supported by Mayor Francis Slay. At press conferences in the past, speakers have called out the Post-Dispatch â€” and Giegerich, in particular â€” for what has been seen as [...]

Percy to Suggs: You Made it Worse

Monday, March 12, 2007

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In an open letter to his old friend and publisher of the St. Louis American newspaper Dr. Donald Suggs, longtime activist Percy Green says the esteemed dentist should have remembered to “do no harm” before operating on St. Louis Public Schools. “I have confronted the St. Louis Board of Education on issues as far back as [...]

Ben Abell Retiring

Friday, March 9, 2007

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Like the voice of your grandpa telling you to put on a raincoat before you go out, KWMU Meteorologist Ben Abell has for years been a reliable source of helpful advice. But after April, the able weatherman will be moving on. Last night, the 75 year-old Abell announced he will be retiring. According to the radio [...]

Slay: The Post is the "Worst Ever"

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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Mayor Francis Slay is once again using his blog to call out our city’s daily underachiever. “Based on an interview with one person,” wrote Slay (or his regular ghost writer, Richard Callow) on MayorSlay.com, “the St. Louis Post Dispatch ran a headline that asserted that the Mardi Gras celebration this past weekend in Soulard was ‘the [...]

Pub Def is "Influential"

Sunday, February 18, 2007

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In this week’s issue of the St. Louis Business Journal, which includes a long list of the “Most Influential St. Louisans”, I am for some reason listed as one of the most “influential” people in media. “[Antonio] French, the brain and brawn behind PUB DEF Weekly, leads a never-ending town hall meeting at www.pubdef.net, telling residents [...]

The American Gets it (Really) Wrong

Monday, February 12, 2007

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This reporter joined many others in a collective “WTF?!” when he read in the current issue of the St. Louis American that the Organization for Black Struggle had endorsed incumbent Jim Shrewsbury (who is white) over challenger Lewis Reed (who is black) in next month’s President of the Board of Aldermen race. Well, turns out, the [...]

Tag Archive | "Media_Watch"

Survey (draft)

SLU Takes Control of Student Paper

Pros Supporting Student Journalists

Students Urge Trustees to Wait

SLU Editor Speaks Out

Does SLPS Need a New Phone Plan?

SLU Threatens Student Press

"The Real Deal" with Syl (sans Tim)

Like Crabs in a Barrel

French on "The Real Deal" Today

French on "The Real Deal" Today [Updated]

Is This What We Call the News?

Radio Person

VIDEO: Lizz Brown with Students

Reporter Becomes the Story

Percy to Suggs: You Made it Worse

Ben Abell Retiring

Slay: The Post is the "Worst Ever"

Pub Def is "Influential"

The American Gets it (Really) Wrong

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