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People Newspapers has started a new weekly paper in Oak Cliff. Not gonna lie – it looks good.

Poynter has a good list of how interactivity helped media cover 9/11 this year.

MSNBC’s “9/11: Five Years Later” displays an interactive section of audio personal narratives and a feature on the controversial ABC docudrama.
CNN sought for user-response in compiling “America Remembers: The Faces of September 11.” This site tells some of the personal stories, documenting “the actions, reactions and perspectives” of 10 people connected with the attacks in various ways. Included in this list is Tom Burnett, 38, who was on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania.
CNN Pipeline is providing a free trial to its service that includes video from the network’s original coverage of 9/11 in its entirety. The real-time broadcast takes place from 8:30 a.m. to midnight.

From Poynteronline:

Remember when there used to be newspaper wars in many towns? When competing publications went after each other? Not just trying to get the best story, but dissing the other guy in print? If so, you’re a core newspaper reader and probably a lot closer to death than birth. Here in Dallas, we’re getting back some of that, but in blogland.

I wonder if Walker and I can find something to duke it out about.

Construction crews working on the Tollway have found two caskets in recent days. I would bet there’s a cemetary burried somewhere in them parts.

The Dallas Observer says broadcast radio is dead. Well maybe not just the Observer, but The New York Times as well.

Gonna happen; just a matter of time. CBS is selling off stations; Clear Channel might have to as well. Anyone with an iPod, XM or Sirius or access to an MP3 blog and a CD burner can tell you that much. And, no, ain’t no schmuck in the world dumb enough to buy into “HD Radio,” which is the world’s most meaningless phrase behind, “No, really, I will definitely call you tomorrow.”

For someone passionate about radio – that sucks. But good thing we’re doing Orange Noise online.

Independent canidate for governor Kinky Friedman was in DeSoto today as a keynote speaker for a chamber of commerce event.
During his keynote address at the luncheon, the one-liners remained but Friedman has developed his message on several points since he began his campaign for governor last year.
Referring to a photograph of himself drinking a Guinness beer, “the drink that kept the Irish from taking over the world,” while riding in a St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dallas, Friedman said he “did drink the Guinness but I did not swallow.”
On his age, Friedman said, “I’m too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.”
On immigration, Friedman asks, “who would Jesus deport?”
On gay marriages, the 61-year old bachelor says he supports the issue, “I want them to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
On school prayer and the 10 commandments, Friedman said students should be allowed to believe in something and he’d “hate to see the 10 commandments after the Legislature gets a hold of them.”
On the Internet, Friedman said “I don’t use the internet — I think it’s the work of Satan.”
Friedman said politics as usual and his love for Texas brought him into the campaign.
“I’m the only candidate running that has no political experience whatsoever,” Friedman said. “But I love Texas. I don’t like the Republicans, I don’t like the Democrats, I love Texas and I don’t like what’s happening to it.”
Friedman pointed out that Gov. Rick Perry, independent candidate Carole Strayhorn and Democratic candidate Chris Bell have 89 years of politics between them.
“That is exactly what the founding fathers did not want America to become,” Friedman said. “I think its time we have non-politicians as governor. Look at what the current governor has done. He’s decided not to have tolls on new toll roads until December. He’s got 1,500 troops on the border and we’ve just been informed that they’ve got weapons with no ammunition. Not even like Barney Fife with one bullet. Of course as long as the Mexicans don’t know this I guess we’ll be OK. They’re there for show.”

Look for full coverage in Sunday’s WDL.