Bill Minutaglio
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Texas Media Lent Credence to Anti-Socialist Hysteria In the ’60s—Has Anything Changed?
In the stories suggesting that Texas and the nation were under threat from socialists, simply plug in “the Tea Party” for “the John Birch Society.” Full Story -
T. Boone Pickens’ Alternative Energy Hype
Bottom line: Pickens spent 2012 pulling the plug, saying that solar and wind energy are not worth his time and money—while putting his muscle into the kind of mega PAC that makes a mockery of campaign financing. Full Story -
Exit Polling: Not Just Numbers
Exit polls are important not just to need-for-speed news jockeys in a rush to announce winners and losers on the evening news or the online front page. If conducted with cultural sensitivity, they can open a window into the soul of Texas’ rapidly changing minority demographic. Full Story -
The Dallas Morning Advertorial?
The Dallas Morning News, still the bellwether mainstream journalism entity in Texas, has decided to align its editorial muscle with the online-oriented, Dallas-based advertising [...] Full Story -
Does the Picayune’s Fate Portend the Future of Dailies?
It’s the kind of thing that almost no one would notice. That, in and of itself, is part of a welling media problem. In [...] Full Story
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In West Explosion, Echoes of Another Texas Tragedy
The explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, on Wednesday raises the same questions that followed the 1947 disaster in Texas City, the largest industrial accident in American history. Full Story -
Remembering Claude Stanush
It was a late, sweaty summer night in San Antonio, it must have been 1980 or 1981, and we were up on Maverick Hill [...] Full Story -
River City Soul
Inside the fading white wood house on Belmont Street in the heart of San Antonio’s East Side, Vernon “Spot” Barnett is keeping one eye [...] Full Story -
Bush’s Burnish
In 1999, folks who attended the Texas Book Festival banquet in Austin witnessed an astonishing moment: George W. Bush magically appeared as a mystery [...] Full Story -
The Soul of San Antonio
Sometimes, when the clock pushes toward 2 a.m. in a dark joint in San Antonio, you don’t have to look hard to feel the [...] Full Story
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