Comments on: The Oklahoman is angry at Channel 25

By: Mike Morgan and Steve Lackmeyer need to hug… at The Lost Ogle

Mike Morgan and Steve Lackmeyer need to hug… at The Lost Ogle — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:58:47 +0000

[...] did was bring focus to a minor situation that would have quickly died away. In a semi-ironic twist, it’s very similar to what The Oklahoman did to Channel 25 a few weeks ago, only without the dunce hat, full page ad or Nick Winkler giving his friends high fives. Share [...]

By: Cashapalooza (Part II) at The Lost Ogle

Cashapalooza (Part II) at The Lost Ogle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:48:38 +0000

[...] Oklahoman started a feud with FOX-25 in response to the local station pointing out the financial trouble of OPUBCO (and [...]

By: Ben73116

Ben73116 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:03:27 +0000

The Columbia Journalism Review was right…they named the Oklahoman the worst newspaper in America in 1999. They havent done anything to improve it since then.

By: no_jumps_here

no_jumps_here — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:29:00 +0000

Hey Skins96 as a matter of fact, they did have a university professor, Dr. Terry Miller from UCO speak about the journalism industry as a whole…if you didn’t watch the week before you wont understand the attack ads in the daily disappointment.

Cheers!

By: Kyle Creasey

Kyle Creasey — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:16:09 +0000

I’d hate to use an Internet term, but the word “butthurt” describes The Oklahoman. Also the Wimgo link is blank.

By: Royce

Royce — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:07:29 +0000

When I first saw this, I had a four-minute internal debate wondering if this was actually real.

I’m still having trouble believing the Oklahoman did this.

By: BigBadBob

BigBadBob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:41:48 +0000

Actually Dave, the Oklahoman isn’t “all the way to the right” anymore. They have taken several republican legislators to task recently, for whatever reason, and seem to have become a little more moderate on certain issues.

They still hate lawyers with a passion though…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:27:11 +0000

It concerns me that a FOX station, no matter how small, is being targeted by The Oklahoman, which is the FOX NEWS of newspapers. If you look at their all-the-way-right-of-right political slant, it is obvious that the Buddy Holly-ish Ed Kelly secretly wishes he was Ruprecht Murdoch. Or at least Roger Ailes!

By: krullone

krullone — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:11:31 +0000

good job skins96, after a lot of worthless babling you finally got to the point… OPUBCO should have it it slide instead of looking like a bunch of babies.

By: skins96

skins96 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:25:49 +0000

At the risk of sounding like a fanboy of OPUBCO ….

So one quick question for the tools at Fox 25: How come, in the interest of fairness, you didn’t report the significant troubles facing local network news?

And why do you think finding a radio host at a local radio station is a legitimate source? Why did you not go to a university professor who has studied issues facing the journalism industry? Why did you think this was legitimate source?

This was lazy, lazy journalism.

Here’s a little secret: Local TV stations are suffering significant declines in ad dollars. The only difference is their news staffs are significantly smaller and so wall-to-wall coverage isn’t in danger because they don’t provide it.

As much as I can’t stand the way David Thompson and Co. interfere with the newsroom at OPUBCO to protect powerful people, there’s more good journalism at The Oklahoman than you could ever find on one of the local TV news stations.

That being said, OPUBCO should’ve let the issue slide. Nobody watches Fox.