The owners of the Long Island Press, one of the seven applying papers voted into the association at the Pittsburgh convention, "have begun plotting how to take the paper daily to compete with Newsday," reports the New York Post. Jed Morey, CEO of the paper's parent company, the Morey Organization, which also owns three radio stations on Long Island, tells the Post: "We consider the weekly a trial balloon. The size of this market lends itself to two dailies."
So says New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Bob Norman, who had hoped that his column last month outing South Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley (pictured in photo) "would do some good." But things "spiraled out of control," says Norman, after Foley said he wouldn't talk about his sexual orientation and denounced Norman's story and "rumors" about him as "revolting and unforgivable." According to Norman, the mainstream media coverage that followed reduced the debate "to a realpolitikal show, a grand distraction."
The national media "repeatedly scooped" The Plain Dealer on the New Times-Village Voice Media antitrust story that was brewing "in its own backyard," says Free Times' Michael Gill."I didn't have any trouble selling (the story) upper right on the front page of the business section on a Monday," the New York Times' David Carr tells Gill, "and that's tough space to get." Commenting on the government's role in the antitrust investigation that led to the story, Carr also says, "I wish they'd aim that gun at some bigger game."
New Times Executive Editor Mike Lacey calls Cleveland Free Times' recent attacks on New Times and Cleveland Scene "an explosion of bluster." Lacey accuses Free Times' Editor David Eden and Publisher Matt Fabyan of concocting "conspiracies wrapped in an ad hominem attack" and of publishing "organ discharge." He cites sales and profit figures that starkly contradict Free Times' assertion that it was winning the alternative newsweekly battle in Cleveland.
A local state attorney caught up in an acrimonious divorce proceeding is suing the Phoenix for Kristen Lombardi's January story about custody battles involving child abuse claims. Lombardi's article described allegations that the plaintiff had abused children from two different marriages. A critical question in the case may be whether the plaintiff is a "public figure." The Phoenix's lawyer told the Boston Globe, ''(Lombardi) is . . . very capable. We think her standards and the Phoenix's standards are high.''
The Board of Directors of Creative Loafing, Inc., announced that it will investigate two of its directors from Cox Newspapers, Inc., owner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The question is whether the two directors used the confidential board meetings to learn enough about publishing alternative newsweeklies to launch "accessAtlanta" as a direct competitor to Creative Loafing (Atlanta).
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