Mar
17
Mea Culpa Monday: Pot calling the kettle Elliott Spitzer edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsCommenting on the Elliott Spitzer scandal for CNN, former U.S. Attorney (and current political analyst) Kendall Coffey noted "This is not survivable unless the U.S. attorney gets up and says tomorrow they're not going to bring criminal charges, and t
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Aug
05
Former Eau Claire news director wins ethics award
Joe Uchill Paper CutsA high-five to Glen Mabie out in Eau Claire, who has won the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics in Journalism Award. It’s a great honor – and one that’s going to someone no longer in the industry. Mabie won the award for resignin
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Apr
29
Tua Culpa Tues.: No (CBS) news is good news
Joe Uchill Paper CutsBad news for Katie Couric last week, when her CBS Evening News set a record for the lowest weekly ratings by a network newscast recorded under the current system of ratings. It sounds a lot worst than it is – largely because this week, she has set t
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Feb
05
Mea Culpa Super Tuesday: YoMomma Bin Barack edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsWith the astute political climate that surrounds today's Super Tuesday everybody-but-Wisconsin's primary extravaganza, it's hard not to begin thinking about where your own vote might go. By now, you've read the endorsements: The Times (NY) went with McCai
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Jan
23
Mea Culpa Day-After-a-Monday That-Was-A-Holiday
Joe Uchill Paper CutsYesterday, The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran the rare apology for not using a racial epithet. On Martin Luther King Day.
Neat.
Phillip Morris, whose parents should have known better before naming him, wrote a column about his discomfort hearing a specifi
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Mar
24
Mea Culpa Monday: Give me Conan or give me death
Joe Uchill Paper CutsI’m trying very hard not to say that Conan O’Brian’s brief feud with Good Housekeeping Magazine did not lead to the most vital newspaper correction of the week. After all, Good Housekeeping’s invention of the cooking-adverse talk show host’s favorite Iri
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Feb
11
Mea Culpa Monday: $1 billion of schadenfreude edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsIf there’s one thing that America hates, it’s lawyers. Or prescription drug companies who jack up prices. Or me.
Nearly all three of those were embarrassed by the New York Times over the past two weeks, when Eli Lily law firmPepper Hamilton e
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Mar
03
Mea Culpa Monday: The cat got their tongue edition
Joe Uchill Paper Cuts
Never say copy editors don’t have a sense of humor. They’re so funny that one editor has been fired and another suspended after a joke in California’s North County Times went haywire.
The two editors altered one word in an
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Apr
07
April Fools Fallout: The Killing Joke
Joe Uchill Paper CutsOn April 1, Lawyer and PR rep J. Peter Segall took out an ‘in memoriam’ ad in the Washington Post for long-time friend, former ambassador to Morocco and still very much alive man, Edward M. Gabriel.
It was the April Fools equivalent of s
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Feb
18
Mea Culpa Monday - Masters of Science in Journalism edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsI swear upon swearing that academics are very smart people, and it’s incredibly inappropriate for me to take childish delight at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Dean Nicholas Lemann accidentally sending his class a self evaluation rather than
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