To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision abolishing segregation in public schools, Gambit Weekly asked New Orleans high school students to write about the ruling's impact on them. Segregation takes many forms, the students observe. Ninth grader Vinnessia Shelbia contends that the school system, by focusing on black "high achievers," belittles African American students' futures. The result: too many "end up cleaning up after the ones who went to good schools."
At age 7, Westword reporter David Holthouse was raped by the teenage son of his parents' friends. A year ago, he became obsessed with the idea of finding and killing the man who had darkened his childhood, in order to prevent him from harming others. And then Holthouse's parents discovered one of his childhood diaries, and the secret was out.
A gigantic metal wall dissects Nogales, a city in Arizona and the state of Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, huge figures press up against the wall. One figure depicts a green-skinned Border Patrol agent chasing some migrants with a big stick, another a migrant returning home to Mexico with an American washing machine loaded onto his back. Other representations warn of the dangers in the desert: the saguaros growing out of a cluster of skulls, the fiery desert curling like a rattler underfoot, Mexicans carrying home the body of a dead compañero in a shroud. Margaret Regan reports on this controversial art and the message its creators hope to spread.
Two forms of online advertising -- one very hot today, the other a little cold -- were central in online publishers' minds Wednesday at the Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show sponsored by E&P and Mediaweek magazines. Paid links, which have accounted for much of the growth in online advertising revenues, will remain hot, according to Patrick Keane, head of advertising sales strategy for Google, one of the leaders in this space. He said that while only 5% of Web pages are search pages, consumers actually are making buying decisions just about everywhere on the Web -- as they randomly surf, read news, or conduct research. "We want to help publishers get a piece of that," said Keane, referring to Google's ongoing contextual ad partnerships with publishers.
Alternative newsweeklies have what it takes to attract online advertising. They're highly local. They have a young, tech-savvy readership. But the papers are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to Internet advertising, says ad sales consultant Mike Blinder (pictured), who will speak at the AAN convention in San Antonio in June. He and other experts urge the industry to follow the lead of some of the larger AAN papers and make their Web strategies more cutting-edge.
Circulation of The Stranger has grown, and it's now 10,000 to 12,000 copies a week behind the more established Seattle Weekly, Mike Lewis reports in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Stranger publisher Tim Keck says the Weekly, which is regarded as more serious, is "boring." Weekly editor Knute Berger describes The Stranger, which is considered more humorous and sensationalistic, as "juvenile." Lewis writes that the two weeklies have "slowly, subtly become more like each other in an effort to establish dominance in a midsize media market...."
Atrocities like the torture and killings of unarmed civilians in Vietnam and the sexual humiliation of prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq are not the mere result of rogue soldiers but stem from what historian Christian Appy identifies as "a doctrine of atrocity," Nicholas Turse writes in The Village Voice. Turse cites military officers' descriptions of the Asian mind and now the Arab mind as one that only understands force. Four other writers also contribute articles to the Voice's special report on the lessons of Abu Ghraib.
In mid-April, editors of AAN papers waited in suspense to see a promised story discussing a memo by a U.S. official detailed to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Minutes before 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 20, the investigative piece by reporter Jason Vest was posted to the Web sites of two papers, The Village Voice and The Boston Phoenix. Over the following hours and days, AAN papers from New Haven, Conn., to Mill Valley, Calif., also published the story, in print, on the Web, or both. Alerted to the article by blogs, readers rushed to alt-weeklies' Web sites in droves.
Two weeks after it refused to continue carrying a church newspaper, Kroger is removing three other weekly papers from its free distribution racks. Louisville, Kentucky's alternative weekly, LEO, is among the banned. A Kroger spokesman told reporter Peter Smith of The Courier-Journal that the store's biggest issue with some of the publications was "the sexual nature of much of the advertising they contain." John Yarmuth, LEO's founder and executive editor, calls the ban "a horrible business decision."
Three-hundred new pedestal newspaper kiosks have been installed in downtown San Francisco, replacing free-standing racks, Joe Rogers reports for KCBS-740 AM. Media giant Clear Channel will maintain the new racks, which feature a billboard on the back. Mayor Gavin Newsom says the racks are intended to clean up some of the city's sidewalk clutter.
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