This week's "Big Fat Whale" strip by Brian McFadden shows Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi using a meat tenderizer to get rid of "the tenacious stain on the Justice Department," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, killing him in the process. Writing on Time's Real Clear Politics blog, Tom Bevan gives his short opinion of McFadden's work: "This cartoon ... is not only unfunny, it's sick."
Yesterday at the Newspaper Association of America's Mid-Year Review, Matt Ferguson said he doesn't consider Craigslist and other sites with free employment classifieds to be much of a competitive threat. "The problem with free is that you don't invest in the technology, you don't invest in the customer service, you don't invest in the sales people. You don't invest in the things that are the differentiators in this business," he said. "I don't think there's a free model in the future."
Last month, Willamette Week ran a cover story on the working conditions of illegal immigrants employed at the Del Monte Fresh Produce food processing plant in North Portland. Last week, federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the plant and arrested 167 undocumented workers. ICE's affadavit (pdf file) cites and quotes from the Week's story, but also notes that "there are no indications that there was an ICE leak" that tipped the paper off. In other words, the ICE raid was already in the works. In an update this week, reporter Beth Slovic writes that the response to the piece before and after the raid has been interesting. "Before the raid, readers who already sympathized with illegal immigrant workers largely praised the May 2 story for describing working conditions at the plant. Unsympathetic readers saw it as a weak-kneed defense of law breakers," she writes. "The raid flipped those responses, prompting some readers to fault the story for naming the plant and others to praise it for apparently aiding agents in their bust."
Michael Warshaw, who was editor for five years, announced yesterday that he's leaving to become editor of Globe West, the Boston Globe's twice-weekly suburban paper, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. "He's great," Worcester Magazine publisher Allen Fletcher says. "He's a real pro who knows the city and has been a solid part of our team for a while."
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