Posts Tagged ‘Erie Renewable Energy’

P&T: first month in the can

Well we made it.

This, my 31st post, marks the one month anniversary of the launch of The Press and Tower. Over the past month we’ve covered stories about the media both locally and nationally, talking about radio, television, newspaper and new media.

We’ve introduced you to the new women on the local news, and broke the story of a morning man’s exit. We talked about MSNBC, HDTV, and John V. We scolded the newspaper for their lack of getting the whole story on the tire to energy plant, and celebrated the efforts of the Lilly TV stations in raising funds for cancer research. (more…)

How did the Times-News get scooped by the Trib?

I didn’t want my first post about the newspaper to be negative. I have a lot of friends who work there, and as the only game in town, they are an easy target that lots of people shoot at. Besides I consider it an everyday miracle how a multi-page broadsheet which contains tens of thousands of words, all perfectly paginated with pictures and fully-designed ads, arrives at my stoop before 6:00 AM every morning. I know how hard it is to put three paragraphs together let alone multiple diverse stories every day. Newspapermen and women have my utmost respect.

But I am dumbfounded that after nearly a year and a half of publishing story after story covering the facts and high emotion surrounding Erie Renewable Energy’s effort to build a power plant with waste tires as the fuel, it is only coming out now that there are not enough tires out there to fully operate the plant. And it took a Pittsburgh newspaper, the Tribune-Review to dig that out first.

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