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We Don’t Need No Water Let the….

by Jonathan Coffman December 10, 2005

http://digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=17471 I’ve never even heard of firehoses freezing before. I guess it was just freakin’ cold out that night. It is unfortunate when the fire department has to take a break and carry bags of salt so they can stand up to fight the fire in your house. Quite unfortunate indeed. I suppose its the [...]

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Selling the Story

by Jonathan Coffman December 5, 2005

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/utown/story.php?ID=17371 This is a prime example of some great writing. In order to cut through the clutter news stories must be able to reach the reader in a way that evokes emotion. It has become aparent that just writing a news story is not enough, it must be breakthrough in order to get any response [...]

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Window Dressing in real life and in paper

by Jonathan Coffman December 4, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17364 I’m guessing this was more of a photo essay in the print edition as opposed to the online. Two smooshed paragraph with nary a quote and two pictures isn’t a newspaper story, its a blog post. Maybe the Missourian has a blog. This could be a nice little event-coverage story, but it had to [...]

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Forcing the Armed Forces

by Jonathan Coffman December 4, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17352 Neat idea to include a rural sociologist in the sourcing for this story on armed forces recruiting. The rural focus of the story was a good tactic in this case. The college bonus is bogus, just my opinion and I can’t say that its a very fact-based one at that. I always was skeptical [...]

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Blogging from Buses

by Jonathan Coffman December 1, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17318 I’ve never been to the bus station, so maybe it would have been good to include some current pics and surely they have an artists rendering of the final project somewhere. So, uh give me some pics and a survey might have been a nice touch. A little poll goes a long way though. [...]

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Pain in Film Follows Fellow filmakers followers

by Jonathan Coffman December 1, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17280 Film festival/cultural event. I find one of the more interesting parts of this story at the end when the conflict comes out about the city funding such an event. It does sound like its one-sided but it is also obvious that the intent was not to hurt of leave out. The story is good, [...]

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Sistas and Mentors

by Jonathan Coffman December 1, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17269 The story-telling on this story was pretty good, but not exceptional. The headline could use work, its obviously playing off the sista2sista title of the group but it just doesn’t flow or have a ring to it. If you’re going to have a catchy slangy headline, do it up right! The story is a [...]

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So Many Names and details….

by Jonathan Coffman November 18, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17118 Robbery leads to murder and two kids go to jail. that is one hell of a day in Mexico. Pretty standard issue trial story, i would think the issue would be more that it has shaken up the town or something. Trial details are just that details and trivial to a lot of people. [...]

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Reliving History Reliving Thought

by Jonathan Coffman November 18, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=17115 The reliving history story from Thursday is not a bad take on an event that probably means a lot to the community of fulton. While fulton is certainly within our local spread I think that it doesn’t do a very good job of localizing and bringing in a skeptical reader. – If you enjoy [...]

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Wal~Mart Woes

by Jonathan Coffman November 14, 2005

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=%2017061 We are def a Wal~Mart town and this movie i’m sure will be highly regarded among the fervent anti-walmart crowd here as well. I prefer not to shop at Walmart as well, but gosh darn those low low prices, you just can’t beat ‘em. So when I have a little extra cash I shop [...]

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