Sunday's front page reminded folks again about all the awards the News-Press has won from the California Newspaper Publishers Association....well someone told me that some facts were left out and sent this bit about the N-P TV ad with the dufus sitting by a lamp claiming to be in the dark without the News-Press... I thought it was pretty funny..so here it is..."The News-Press has a television ad running in which people talk about why they subscribe. It ends with a man sitting by a lamp, saying: "I read the News-Press every day, because without it, I'm in the dark." Then he switches the lamp off.
Well if you read Scott Steepleton's story on Sunday about the annual newspaper awards handed out by the California Newspaper Publishers Association, you'd STILL BE IN THE DARK.
Steepleton, er, the News-Press, neglected to tell you about all the other local papers that won awards, among them:
The Daily Sound, one award; the Lompoc Record, two awards; the Santa Maria Sun, one award; the Santa Maria Times, four awards; the Santa Ynez Valley News, five awards.
And by the way, the Ventura County Star won eight awards, including a second-place for General Excellence. Among the Star's other awards were first-places for Best Writing, Best Online Coverage, Best Video and Best Website, in the same circulation size category in which the News-Press competed.And would you believe the Santa Cruz Sentinel, another beach city newspaper, but with even smaller circulation than the News-Press, actually won 15 awards, TEN of them first place!
I'll put my lampshade back on now"......
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Speaking of the shitty News-Press do you have a link of Travis Armstrongs 2006 mugshot. Search=nada.
I googled "Travis Armstrong pictures" and got the forlorn DUI mug...Travis is wearing an Easter yellow tee shirt..it's from the Citizen McCaw website..
Gee whiz, the New Press leave FACTS out of it's pages? Did it win ANY first place awards for its lousy writing and mudane photos? No. But does it matter? Did anyone mention this contest isn't even run by a REAL news organization like the Associated Press or Scripps? This is a vanity contest where you pay $50 to get a little plaque for your money. It's amazing McClaw coughed up the money, I guess she thought it was time for some emergency PR since her paper is in the toilet and has become a joke. The best thing in the News Press are the Los Angeles Times stories, act now Santa Barbara, you can probably get a subscription to the LA Times cheaper. If you want local news for free, the Daily Sound has the best coverage online.s
Wendy McCaw has been bitch SLAPPed more times than a milpas t-ho.
Always good for a chuckle is Wendy McCaw's own web site: www.wendy-mccaw.com.
Especially the page Current Issues, which is full of links to stories the News-Press has run about its legal wranglings with the reporters, Teamsters and the National Labor Relations Board.
On this page, Mrs. McCaw tells readers that "...we must report without bias and we must be balanced in our coverage."
The very first story on the page -- and it's a news story that ran on Page 1 -- has this headline: "News-Press fends off government's latest attack."
Without bias. Right.
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