amazon.comThere's a new book out chronicling the rags-to-riches tale of Bernarr Macfadden, a sickly child from the Missouri Ozarks who moved to St. Louis in the late 1800s. While in St. Louis Macfadden discovered the virtues of weight-lifting and physical exertion -- even spending some time on the regional wrestling circuit -- before moving to New York to make his fortune as the publisher of risque fitness magazines and general-interest tabloids.If the review last weekend in Wall Street Journal
American Journalism Review just published a piece about newspaper accuracy where layoffs-meet-the-Internet, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the main character in the 3,530-word article.Only hard-core media wonks will appreciate all three-thousand of those words, so I've taken the liberty of posting a few excerpts about the new news culture within the P-D.Let's start with AJR author Carl Sessions Stepp's great lede:Sunrise approaches on a Friday morning, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Web sit
Columnist Sylvester Brown says his employer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, put him on paid administrative leave on Friday, March 27, and locked him out of the building over allegations that officials in East St. Louis paid for a trip he took to Washington, D.C. Photo: Nick LucchesiAsked about who he would like to see as his successor at the Post, Brown said, "I haven't gotten to that yet. I hope whoever he is, he has a strong spine."Brown, the metro columnist covering African-American issues and
Out with the Pulitzer Prize, in with the Lee EnterPrize! Plus: Unreal learns a thing or two about loveless marriages, sexually deviant robots and a man who gets lots of our money
