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Category Archives: Decisions, decisions
Plenty of opinions to go around
They’ll get Gene Lyons out of my newspaper when they pry his column from my cold dead fingers. Well, OK, I’m not exactly sure I’d lay down my life for Lyons, and I’ve never thought of The Evening Sun as … Continue reading
Making the really tough call
A photographer wanted me to look at a picture as soon as I got to work the other day: A teenage girl with a nasty gash across her forehead, blood streaming down her freckled face. It’s from a drill, … Continue reading
Posted in Decisions, decisions
Tagged Hanover, Journalism ethics, Leonard Killing, McSherrystown, Suicide
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KClinging to the memories
Talk about peer pressure. I got back from vacation last week just in time to sit down in front of the computer and pull up Facebook and read the chatter and see that the favorite Hanover hangout of just about … Continue reading
Posted in Decisions, decisions
Tagged beer, Clare Becker, Hanover, Hanover Borough, KClinger's Tavern, Tim Stonesifer
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New media, and new dads
I still have the operating room scrubs, folded and tucked away in the back of the closet. They’re green with a white drawstring on the pants, washed and dried and most days anymore I don’t give them a second thought. … Continue reading
Posted in Decisions, decisions, Evolving media
Tagged Hanover, Heather Toomey, quadruplets, social media, Toomey Quad Squad
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Getting it first – and right
A report of his death, Mark Twain famously wrote, was greatly exaggerated. So false reports of famous deaths are nothing new. Though in Joe Paterno’s case, the first reports of his death turned out not to so much exaggerated as … Continue reading
JoePa dies?
That’s a fine-looking A1 page for this week’s Sunday paper. Too bad no one will ever see it. Don’t get me wrong, the one you’ll see in the morning looks pretty good (I hope) and will get you the information … Continue reading
Ethnic reference inappropriate?
A senior at South Western High School named Kennedy Barba sent me an email recently taking issue with a quote in a story about the five teenagers killed last month in a car crash near New Oxford. Barba thought references … Continue reading
