I happened to be in San Bernardino this morning, and I saw the mess of a paper that was thrown on people’s doorsteps. I didn’t know it was an L.A. News Group-wide problem-cum-disaster until I got this link from Reporter G. He is a former staffer at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and has good […]

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Confession up front: Spike Speigner was gone from The Sun newsroom several years before 1984. Probably no later than 1981. Maybe even late 1980. But Spike Speigner popped into my head the other day, and I believe he warrants mention in my series on people I worked with. Even if he’s a little out of […]

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A recent trend in the sports-fan blogosphere is to create a website named “FireTheSportsFigureIHate.com” Just fill in the name of the coach/general manager/player you loathe, get the domain, get busy trashing the guy. Among those out there and active are firegeorgekarl.com (referring to the Denver Nuggers coach) … and locally, we had dumpdorrell.com, which last […]

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Some of us fell into print journalism. Some of us discovered it fairly late. Some of us knew we were destined for newspapers. Early and with absolute certainty. That was/is Vic West. I never pinned him down on this, but I bet he knew — KNEW — he was going to be a sports journalist […]

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I’m hearing that surviving sports staffers with the Ontario/San Bernardino arm of Dean Singleton’s L.A. News Group are being told not to expect a return to the main office in Berdoo any time soon. In one of the generically nonsensical and routinely unconscionable forced migrations of staff perpetrated on journalists at LANG’s eastern properties, the […]

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(Version 2.0: Updates/corrects bio info thanks to her son, Bob Wilmuth.) Katie Castator surprised us. Again and again. She was Somebody’s Mom, three times over. Yet she had a full-time job. She apparently hadn’t graduated from college, and certainly didn’t have a journalism degree. But there she was in the newsroom, a 40-year-old rookie. She […]

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A friend of mine noticed an interesting take at sj.com (sports journalists dot-com) recently on what the poster declared to be the dawn of the Post Fear Factor era in journalism. In short, this writer argues that print has become all stick and very little carrot. Particularly in the Dean Singleton-run MediaNews chain, and especially […]

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The blog system that hosts this site … allows the author to sign up to see his/her statistics. How many hits, going to which items, referred from where. Stuff like that. Some bloggers are fascinated by (or even fixated upon) these numbers. I hardly notice. Actually, I don’t bother looking, but my wife loves to […]

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I don’t think of myself as a peculiar person. Not particularly out of the mainstream. Well, aside from this one thing I’ve done. Which I can’t really defend or justify. I have nearly every San Bernardino Sun sports section from August, 1976, through February, 2008. Nearly every one. All 11,520 of them, if I’ve added […]

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Read today’s press release, below. One funny thing about this … when the release shifts to “about Roski” … and the first item mentioned is that he was named “one of the 10 most intriguing sports figures” by the L.A. Daily News … I was the one who wrote that, for L.A. News Group, last […]

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