The CAL
Not a strong front page.
But Aaron Claverie gets a scoop of the year for Wildomar opening a new City Hall. That is sarcasm folks. Who cares? Also, is Claverie went to the typical easy way out lede and is he going to use this line for every story:
"It's one more first for the city of Wildomar."
Future story: It’s one more first for Wildomar. The Clerk got a stapler.
It’s one more first for Wildomar. Wendy’s opened.
Link: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/08/25/news/californian/wildomar/z55236e2395729949882574ac006ead3e.txt
Nelsy Rodriguez played catch up to The PE with her Ice Rink story. Give her credit, she did try to spin it with a lot of comments from the city. The comments from the city officials make them look like putz’s. Let the people build the arena. Let them fast track it. I did find the lede a bit dry and boring. To any future reporters out there, please never start a story with "Proponents". Could there be a more boring word in the English lexicon?
Link: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/08/25/news/californian/murrieta/zd8c4f0ebb0624ff2882574b0007a06b1.txt
Cathy Redfern did a centerpiece story on a Menifee man who holds Civil War events. The PE’s Sean Nealon did this story quite a long time ago. The lede is too much and it takes to long to get to the point. And also when did it become okay to run a 2005 file photo as a centerpiece?
The PE
Why PE? Why stick Andy Dick on the Local cover again? I’m sure that story had the most reads because people care about this clown for some reason. But on to real stories.
Sarah Burge does it again. Super Reporter scoops the Cal on the fact that another political candidate in Elsinore had their vehicle torched. Is it the work of faulty wiring or have those amoebas in the lake climbed into engines? Harold Knapp tells us in what I find an amusing, but sad, quote: "It's obvious that it was a torch job," Knapp said.
Link: http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_sarson26.488fad7.html
Photographer Terry Pierson got creative for the Centerpiece of the local section. He shoots a picture on Saturday of a car show. He gets a reflection of some souped up rides in the background with a dad and his two kids taking it in. Creative, artsy and cute. The story itself – I would rather the lede be less boring.
“Two groups”, might as well have said “Proponents”. How about painting a scene of what this car show is?
Link: http://www.pe.com/localnews/lakeelsinore/stories/PE_News_Local_S_scarshow26.4768ea9.html
I will also briefly mentioned Julia Glick’s story on the DA’s office getting a building of their own. Really? Is that needed? Oh I guess so since the department is such a nice money making machine.
Other Papers
Here is an interesting story (and my pick for story of the day) from the UT’s Sacramento bureau about lost fishing gear floating in the waters. I have never heard of Mike Gardener but the writing is tight through-out, the quotes are serviceable and it is something I never knew about. Kudos to you.
Great lede:
The state is preparing to launch a fishing expedition, but it's not angling for tuna, squid or flounder.
In this case, the catch is tons of fishing equipment lost or discarded in the ocean every season, posing serious danger to marine life.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080826/news_1n26fishgear.html
Ornell Soto did a story on a lawsuit involving Viejas. It’s basically a he said/she said pissing contest. What’s the need for this story? It seems like Soto thought maybe he could allude to a giant cover up by the Indian Reservation. But it’s pretty much boring. Blah.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080826/news_1m26viejas.html
The LA Times had a nice approach to the housing crisis with this story on low income families who are being affected even though they weren’t the greedy people who maxed out the equity on their home or bought a home they couldn’t afford:
Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-section26-2008aug26,0,3965437.story
Not a strong front page.
But Aaron Claverie gets a scoop of the year for Wildomar opening a new City Hall. That is sarcasm folks. Who cares? Also, is Claverie went to the typical easy way out lede and is he going to use this line for every story:
"It's one more first for the city of Wildomar."
Future story: It’s one more first for Wildomar. The Clerk got a stapler.
It’s one more first for Wildomar. Wendy’s opened.
Link: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/08/25/news/californian/wildomar/z55236e2395729949882574ac006ead3e.txt
Nelsy Rodriguez played catch up to The PE with her Ice Rink story. Give her credit, she did try to spin it with a lot of comments from the city. The comments from the city officials make them look like putz’s. Let the people build the arena. Let them fast track it. I did find the lede a bit dry and boring. To any future reporters out there, please never start a story with "Proponents". Could there be a more boring word in the English lexicon?
Link: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/08/25/news/californian/murrieta/zd8c4f0ebb0624ff2882574b0007a06b1.txt
Cathy Redfern did a centerpiece story on a Menifee man who holds Civil War events. The PE’s Sean Nealon did this story quite a long time ago. The lede is too much and it takes to long to get to the point. And also when did it become okay to run a 2005 file photo as a centerpiece?
The PE
Why PE? Why stick Andy Dick on the Local cover again? I’m sure that story had the most reads because people care about this clown for some reason. But on to real stories.
Sarah Burge does it again. Super Reporter scoops the Cal on the fact that another political candidate in Elsinore had their vehicle torched. Is it the work of faulty wiring or have those amoebas in the lake climbed into engines? Harold Knapp tells us in what I find an amusing, but sad, quote: "It's obvious that it was a torch job," Knapp said.
Link: http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_sarson26.488fad7.html
Photographer Terry Pierson got creative for the Centerpiece of the local section. He shoots a picture on Saturday of a car show. He gets a reflection of some souped up rides in the background with a dad and his two kids taking it in. Creative, artsy and cute. The story itself – I would rather the lede be less boring.
“Two groups”, might as well have said “Proponents”. How about painting a scene of what this car show is?
Link: http://www.pe.com/localnews/lakeelsinore/stories/PE_News_Local_S_scarshow26.4768ea9.html
I will also briefly mentioned Julia Glick’s story on the DA’s office getting a building of their own. Really? Is that needed? Oh I guess so since the department is such a nice money making machine.
Other Papers
Here is an interesting story (and my pick for story of the day) from the UT’s Sacramento bureau about lost fishing gear floating in the waters. I have never heard of Mike Gardener but the writing is tight through-out, the quotes are serviceable and it is something I never knew about. Kudos to you.
Great lede:
The state is preparing to launch a fishing expedition, but it's not angling for tuna, squid or flounder.
In this case, the catch is tons of fishing equipment lost or discarded in the ocean every season, posing serious danger to marine life.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080826/news_1n26fishgear.html
Ornell Soto did a story on a lawsuit involving Viejas. It’s basically a he said/she said pissing contest. What’s the need for this story? It seems like Soto thought maybe he could allude to a giant cover up by the Indian Reservation. But it’s pretty much boring. Blah.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080826/news_1m26viejas.html
The LA Times had a nice approach to the housing crisis with this story on low income families who are being affected even though they weren’t the greedy people who maxed out the equity on their home or bought a home they couldn’t afford:
Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-section26-2008aug26,0,3965437.story
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