Mid-week Media Morsels

A one-day respite from our usual WCF political red meat menu

By Curmudgeon

There are reports in this morning's Standard-Examiner and today's Salt Lake Tribune on the public water meeting held by the city council in Ogden last night.

The Std-Ex's story, by Charles Trentelman, can be found here.

The Trib's story, by Kristin Moulton, is here.

It would be interesting, we think, to hear from any of our readers who attended last night's meeting, just to flesh out the information in the above news stories.

And finally, on another topic, the Standard Examiner is trolling for political ads. Running an ad selling the paper as the best way to reach local voters. It's an interesting read, the general theme of which is "all politics is local" and nobody covers local politics like newspapers. It claims particularly that newspapers in general, and the Std-Ex in particular, deliver "credibility that is unmatched" in local political coverage.

I'd think the Std-Ex's failure, so far, to print, even as a news brief, Rep. Hansen's filing a complaint with the OPD naming names of those caught in the act removing his lawn signs and replacing them with Godfrey signs, might raise a question or two, at the least, about both the range and credibility of the Std-Ex's coverage, que no?