Randy Kuhl's Brighton town hall meeting was covered in a rare page 1B story in today's Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The story focuses almost entirely on opposition to the Iraq war. The paper edition includes an unflattering picture of Kuhl that's missing from the online story.
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Look at the title difference from the D&C to the Star Gazette... same author too.
WTF D&C
http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070530/UPDATE/3...
The S-G and D&C are both Gannett papers, so they have an internal "news service" which is like the AP wire for Gannett papers. It looks like the headline is the only thing that's different, and the S-G headline "Kuhl Takes No Questions at Town Meeting" is pretty tough on Kuhl.
Common ownership of newspapers is becoming more popular. It saves expenses and actually gets more news in each paper. Elmira and Rochester are both Gannet newspapers as is Ithaca (which circulates in central and eastern Schuyler County). Elmira and Ithaca don’t even own their own presses. They are printed by yet another Gannet newspaper in Binghamton.
Gatehouse Media owns the papers in Corning, Canandaigua and Hornell (as well as Sayre PA which circulates in Tioga County NY). They also own nine or so weekly papers in and around Rochester as well as weeklies in Dansville, Bath, Canisteo and Penn Yan.
The companies also sell to each other. Gatehouse recently bought four Gannet newspapers including the one in Utica.
They are pretty much independent as editorial voices – I think Elmira endorsed Kuhl and Rochester endorsed Massa; Corning endorsed Kuhl and Canandaigua endorsed Massa in the last election.
I didn't know that Gatehouse had such a broad reach. I think you got the endorsements right - Massa in the North, Kuhl in the South, just like the voting.
I know they are both owned by the same company, but I just thought it was interesting how different the titles were for virtually identical articles.
The headline is usually written by a copy editor not the reporter. One person wrote the story and two different ones wrote the headline.