Trying to get a comment from the media when a story involves them is frequently impossible. Ironic, of course, since the media lives on its ability to get people to talk.
Military columnist Tom Philpott had a column this week that blasted the record of for-profit schools than have managed to attract 25% of the post- 9-11 GI Bill educational benefit money, despite a sometimes miserable dropout rate.
And included in the column was this gem:
I wonder how much coverage The Washington Post has given that story?*
Then there was the discovery twenty years ago of a plume of toxic chemicals below 50 blocks of Downtown Montgomery...with The Montgomery Advertiser being one of the possible sources from their own old building on Washington Avenue.
While the Advertiser has reported on the story, I couldn't find any mention of this past week's official notification that The State, Montgomery County and the newspaper were officially being notified of potential liability for the cleanup. What will the paper do? Claim freedom of the Press?
The Advertiser's new building is down by The Alabama River.
We can only hope they being more careful about where their printing and photographic chemicals are dumped now.
An EPA Public Hearing will be held on November 3rd, and it will be interesting to see if the Advertiser has "no comment" when asked about contributing to the potentially devastating impact on downtown redevelopment efforts. And will the County sue the paper for damages from their purchase of the old building?
[*UPDATE: 10-17-11 The Post has the story this Monday morning, but no disclosure of their ownership of one of the comapnies involved.]
[UPDATE: 10-22-11 The Advertiser reports the EPA has concluded their old building is safe.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]
Military columnist Tom Philpott had a column this week that blasted the record of for-profit schools than have managed to attract 25% of the post- 9-11 GI Bill educational benefit money, despite a sometimes miserable dropout rate.
And included in the column was this gem:
The eighth for-profit company among the top 10 institutions getting GI Bill payments is Kaplan, owned by the Washington Post. Its Post-9/11 GI Bill payments climbed in 12 months from $17 million to $44 million.
I wonder how much coverage The Washington Post has given that story?*
Then there was the discovery twenty years ago of a plume of toxic chemicals below 50 blocks of Downtown Montgomery...with The Montgomery Advertiser being one of the possible sources from their own old building on Washington Avenue.
While the Advertiser has reported on the story, I couldn't find any mention of this past week's official notification that The State, Montgomery County and the newspaper were officially being notified of potential liability for the cleanup. What will the paper do? Claim freedom of the Press?
The Advertiser's new building is down by The Alabama River.
We can only hope they being more careful about where their printing and photographic chemicals are dumped now.
[*UPDATE: 10-17-11 The Post has the story this Monday morning, but no disclosure of their ownership of one of the comapnies involved.]
[UPDATE: 10-22-11 The Advertiser reports the EPA has concluded their old building is safe.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]
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