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One of my favorite features of national Sunshine Week is the effort by cartoonists to highlight the many threats to America’s free press and public access. Today, MissoulaEditor.com brings you two of those political cartoons – as a reminder that our freedoms require vigilance and support. All of us here at the Missoulian work diligently [...] Advertisement
Newspapers all across the nation are in the midst of Sunshine Week, our annual campaign to educate the public about the importance of our nation’s rights to a free press and public access. At the Missoulian, we launched the week with a call to Montana legislators to support Senate Bill 217. Here’s our editorial: At about this [...] After lighting up the blogosphere nationwide by shutting off online reader comments earlier this week, the Portland Press Herald has restored the service, using new moderation tools but without requiring commenters to use their real names. The Maine newspaper eliminated online comments on Tuesday, citing “vile, crude, insensitive and vicious postings” on its website. They are not [...] There’s been a ton of chatter today about our decision to cancel a weekly feature on our print-edition Opinion page called Chatterbox. We launched Chatterbox shortly after we added online commenting to our stories, thinking that by running a sampling of reader comments on a particular story or topic in the print edition of the Missoulian, [...] Big Sky High School journalism teacher Kim Lucostic discusses the proposed new publications policy during last week’s school board meeting. LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian As Missoula County Public Schools trustees consider whether to adopt a proposed new student publications policy – one I’ve voiced opposition to on this blog – it’s heartening to see the community suggest [...]
Courtesy Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has once again proved the importance of journalists going straight to the source. Tormented by the Gulf oil disaster, but worried his bosses would think the idea hair-brained, Breen bought his own plane ticket and headed to the [...] The conversation is lively today on Missoulian.com, and one of the links attracting considerable talk is this morning’s editorial on the problems journalists are encountering in trying to cover the Gulf oil disaster. Here’s what the Missoulian said: Daily we are brought to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, so far from western Montana, thanks to [...] Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian One of the most important roles we have as journalists, and as a newspaper, is to provide the public with fair, balanced and truthful information about the most difficult and controversial issues of the day. In Missoula these days, one of those issues is the Missoula City Council’s proposed equality ordinance. On Monday [...] Clay Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor Orville Daniels, the former and longtime supervisor of the Lolo National Forest, was right on when he spoke of open government. “I always tell my people, ‘Just open the windows and let the breeze blow through,’ ” he said. And his actions backed up those words over decades of leadership [...] |
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Election news and commentary: It’s now or never
The clock is ticking on the November midterm elections, and interest just seems to keep growing. We’ve been inundated by letters to the editor at both the Missoulian and Ravalli Republic – which creates a challenge we love. How do we get all of your thoughts out there before Election Day?
Here’s what we are going [...]