TRIB LIES
the toot, the whole toot, and nothing but
the toot.
The folks at the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
have something of a reputation in media (and
media-watching) circles for, shall we say, spinning the straw of their facts
into the gold of their own happy delusions. That reputation will surely not be
improved by the
last item of The Thursday Wrap, in which a couple of second-place
awards strewn across the Trib's barn floor are offered up like a few bricks
straight from Fort Knox...
Toot, toot: These Trib editorial pages have been honored for "excellence and originality" by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. The Trib was second only to The Patriot-News of Harrisburg. Cited: our good mix of local and national issues and how our cartoons complement our commentaries. Neither The Philadelphia Inquirer nor The Toledo, Ohio, Block Bugler was mentioned in this category. 'Nuff said.
Well, not quite.
While it is true that the Tribune-Review took second place in the Editorial/Opinion Page Excellence category, and while it's also true that the paper took second place (one outright, one tie) in two other PNA Division I categories...
...it's worth noting that, while the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- that's the Toledo, Ohio, Block Bugler, in dismissive Trib-speak -- was not mentioned in that category, it was mentioned in seven others, took first place in three of them, and ultimately tied for second place in the overall rankings:
2007 NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR DAILY
First Place: The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
Second Place (tie): Centre Daily Times, State College; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Which means, of course, that there was plenty more to be said, if not much more to be insinuated. Or fabricated. And that, while tooting your own horn is certainly understandable, it is considerably less so when you're playing a kazoo and trying to convince us it's a tuba.
Toot, toot: These Trib editorial pages have been honored for "excellence and originality" by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. The Trib was second only to The Patriot-News of Harrisburg. Cited: our good mix of local and national issues and how our cartoons complement our commentaries. Neither The Philadelphia Inquirer nor The Toledo, Ohio, Block Bugler was mentioned in this category. 'Nuff said.
Well, not quite.
While it is true that the Tribune-Review took second place in the Editorial/Opinion Page Excellence category, and while it's also true that the paper took second place (one outright, one tie) in two other PNA Division I categories...
...it's worth noting that, while the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- that's the Toledo, Ohio, Block Bugler, in dismissive Trib-speak -- was not mentioned in that category, it was mentioned in seven others, took first place in three of them, and ultimately tied for second place in the overall rankings:
2007 NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR DAILY
First Place: The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
Second Place (tie): Centre Daily Times, State College; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Which means, of course, that there was plenty more to be said, if not much more to be insinuated. Or fabricated. And that, while tooting your own horn is certainly understandable, it is considerably less so when you're playing a kazoo and trying to convince us it's a tuba.
Posted: Thu - October 18, 2007 at 04:09 PM
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