PubDef.net

The St. Louis-based political media site is totally overhauled, powered by WordPress (the stylish Premium News theme), and looks awesomely professional (compare to old version). Would like to see a masthead, or a statement of purpose, or whatever, but it’s a minor…

More ad subtlety at STLtoday

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch either hates its own website or its own readers. Or maybe the paper is just really hard up for cash. Or perhaps all three. Oh, well. Anyone wanna go see Jersey Boys?

Is our Forbes reporters learning?

Forbes.com may be the “home page for the world’s business leaders,” but let’s hope those leaders don’t take the magazine’s advice on raising children. A slideshow accompanying the commentary “Where to Educate Your Children” lists St. Louis as the 9th best…

The Lumiere Place-Dispatch

Visitors to the web analogue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had best put their Ray-Bans on first, lest their retinas be scorched by the garish Lumiere Place advertising that serves as wallpaper today:

Subtle!

The P-D must have decided it could make additional cash…

Roid rage

For me, the most interesting aspect of Mitchell Day was the overblown “team coverage” given the story by local NBC affiliate KSDK. This is what happens when a station tries to take ownership of a story. Similarly hysterical is the war…

The nuclear glass is half empty at the Associated Press

As I glance over the Iran nuclear program headlines being piped to me by the feeds of various news outlets…

USA Today:

US: Iran halted nuke work in 2003

Reuters:

US: Iran halted nuclear weapons program in 2003

BBC World

US report plays down Iran threat

CNN.com

US:…

If CNN thought Angie Tucker mattered…

…then you might expect to see a story like this:

But CNN doesn’t.

So you don’t.

(”CNN” text from actual Tulsa World article by Nicole Marshall. Thanks to Shark-fu for her post “Black and Missing…” at Shakesville.)

Rapid aging

There is no easier or more certain way to feel about a hundred years older than to spend a few minutes watching Sunday Morning on CBS. Goddamn, but this show has all the energy of a two-hour Geritol ad. And don’t…

Pulp nonfiction

Sigh. (Link to Post-Dispatch law and order story now defunct, of course.)

Bullets riddle truck — and man — in city

A young man staggered from a bullet-ridden pickup truck and died on the streets of St. Louis early today.

It just goes on and…

Paging Harry Levins

If the Post-Dispatch’s resident military matters writer is scanning the web, I hope he notes and comments on this take on Iraq by a group of grunts - two staff sergeants, three sergeants, and an Army specialist - in a NY Times oped.…