ABC News was the first traditional media outlet to report explicit instant messages between former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., and under-aged congressional pages, but an Internet blog broke the story almost a week earlier.
Ralph Braseth, a blogger and the director of student media at the University of Mississippi, said blogs are good for casting a wide net to look for sources, but should be viewed with a skeptical eye.
His Honor Frank Melton defending his honor has become a daily routine. This week, the Jackson mayor is in Meridian defending himself against charges he libeled two officers of the Mississippi Buruea of Narcotics, an agency Melton lead between daliances in broadcasting and municipal, um, service as the city’s chief exec.
He alleged leaked a memo to The Clarion-Ledger in 2003 that got the pair of officers in hot water.
A sex column will continue to run in the University of Southern Mississippi’s student newspaper despite criticism from university President Shelby Thames.
Pillow Talk has appeared in The Student Printz since Sept. 7, Executive Editor David McRaney said.
“We had decided early in the semester we were going to do a sex column, based on the idea that many college newspapers already do this,” he said. “The more modern and more respectable colleges all do this. Yale, Harvard, Emory, Berkeley, Cornell - all the college newspapers we’re trying to aspire to.”
The latest column, published Sept. 28, is the second most read article on studentprintz.com, only surpassed by the account of the Eagles’ 19-14 squeaker over Central Florida.
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