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Dick has 30 years experience as an award winning reporter, editor and writing coach, most of them at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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A slimmer -- and more engaging -- Post-Dispatch
A good week for our daily paper
The Post-Dispatch has re-packaged and re-purposed its newspaper, acknowledging the realities of the marketplace and making a strong effort to recapture readers who have so many other places to go for news. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven talk it over on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #82
Having a bat mitzvah in their 90s - New York Times
It's never too late to become a bat mitzvah, even if you're 94 as is Ann Simon of Beachwood, Ohio. And she's not the oldest one. Nine women were planning to take part in the bat mitzvah ceremony in the synagogue of the Menorah Park senior residence in this Cleveland suburb.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #81
Subway hero shuns the spotlight -- New York Times
Chad Lindsey rescued a man from the subway tracks at New York's Penn Station. Even more remarkably, he didn't try to capitalize on his moment in the limelight.
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-- Dick Weiss
What goes around comes around for CNBC
The Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer smackdown
Jim Cramer and the so-called financial gurus got what was coming to them when Jon Stewart mocked them mercilessly on his Daily Show, Dick Weiss tells McGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #80
Job search is unemployed executive's full-time quest -- Kansas City Star
Star reporter Eric Adler followed Darren Wright for a month as he tried to find a job in an ailing Kansas City job market.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #79
A real wrestler -- New York Times
After Mickey Rourke portrayed a wrestler in the hit movie, New York Times reporter Michael Winerip went looking for a real one with surprising results.
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-- Dick Weiss
Eight is enough for a media frenzy
The birth of octuplets brings out the best and worst in the media
The woman who brought eight babies into the world also gave birth to a media frenzy. Some media outlets used the moment to inform; others to drive ratings. Elsewhere, Lee Enterprises is trying to get Newspaper Guild members to accept an unpaid furlough at the Post-Dispatch. But the membership so far isn't buying. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss these and other media matters on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #78
Fact checking, a nearly lost art -- New Yorker
They seem almost quaint in the age of the internet, fact checkers who pour over every word in an article making sure everything is accurate. Fact checkers still work at some magazines, including the New Yorker. Here is John McPhee's account of how they operate. Note: The link above will direct you to an abstract of the article. If you are a subscriber, you can read the entire piece; if not you will need to subscribe or pay a fee to read the article.
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-- Dick Weiss
Rush to A-Rod Judgment
Sports reporters dump on Alex Rodriquez
Having seen too many sports figures duck and dodge steroid allegations, sports reporters jumped all over superstar Yankee Alex Rodriguez before he could even address the accusations against him. Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss the controversy on the McGraw Show on KTRS-AM (550)
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #77
To save. To per chance destory the economy -- Kansas City Star
Reporter Scott Canon explores an economic paradox. With the economy tanking, the value of your home declining, and, perhaps, your job in doubt, it's probably wise to reduce debt and save. But if everyone does that, the economy will sink further.
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-- Dick Weiss
