This year’s annual Project Censored list of the most underreported news stories includes the widening wealth gap, the trial of Bradley Manning and President Obama’s war on whistleblowers — all stories that actually received considerable news coverage. So how exactly were they “censored,” and what does that say of this venerable media watchdog project? Project […]
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Paper Power
Friday, 2:02 p.m. A bearded man wearing wire-framed glasses breezes out of the Arcata Police Department. The man wears a dark purple shirt with an awkwardly mended sleeve and a gray fleece vest. He’s carrying a sheaf of papers recording recent events in the city’s crime continuum. He plops the printed stack atop a nearby […]
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Voices from The Edge
“This is definitely going to be one of those ‘you don’t look homeless’ days.” The woman making this comment is about 50. With her thick dark hair in a bob, her blue windbreaker and wire-rimmed glasses, she could be a mom on her way to pick up her teenager from soccer practice. But she lives […]
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No Static at All
And on the radio you hear “November Rain” / That solo’s awful long but it’s a good refrain / You listen to it twice cuz the DJ is asleep / On the radio. — Regina Spektor Scanning the airwaves between Los Angeles and San Bernardino. Nothing interesting. A classic rock station’s playing Foreigner’s “Double Vision.” […]
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Printing the Journal
If you’re reading the paper version of this week’s North Coast Journal, you’re holding a product that was created last Tuesday night on the Samoa Peninsula. Western Web, which occupies 24,000 square feet in the Fairhaven Business Park (in a space previously used as a machine shop by the Samoa Pulp Mill), has been printing […]
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Dan Rather and Jared Huffman Tour Pot Grows in a Helicopter
In this week’s “Week in Weed” column, we chat with our U.S. Congressman, Rep. Jared Huffman, about his latest trip to Humboldt, during which he was briefed by Sheriff Mike Downey about marijuana issues and interviewed by the one and only Dan Rather. They also went for a helicopter ride. Pick up this week’s Journal […]
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A New Journal-ista
We’re all happy to welcome Grant Scott-Goforth, an Arcata native who will be writing, editing, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable along with the rest of us here at the North Coast Journal. You might recognize his byline from the Times-Standard (sorry, Kimberly Wear, but hat tip for spotting and growing local talent). Grant […]
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Journal a Winner
The California Newspaper Publishers Association has honored the North Coast Journal for award-winning work in eight categories this year, ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing, from cartooning to graphic illustration. We just got the CNPA awards notice in the mail late last week, and there are lots of congratulations to go around in this […]
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KIEM Camera Recovered Near Site of Amazing Google Street View Images
So, one of the cameras from last weekend’s “News Channel 3” theft was recovered earlier today, along with some cables belonging to the station. (See the press release below.) But more importantly (by which we mean way less importantly), the camera was recovered less than a block from what may be the greatest 360-degree panorama of Eureka […]
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Who Broke and Entered and Burglarized the TV Station?
The station may call itself “News Channel 3,” but I suspect they’d rather not be the news. A trailer behind the staion’s Humboldt Hill HQ was allegedly broken into over the weekend, with the thief making off with roughly $10,000 worth of equipment, including four news cameras. On 01-27-2013, approximately 12:00 noon the Humboldt County […]
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Rapacious Weed: News Outlets Eye Enviro Costs of Humboldt’s Pot Farms
Two news stories this week, the first from the Sacramento Bee and a follow-up from Mother Jones, examine the environmental impacts of large-scale outdoor marijuana grow operations, which have exploded over the rural hills of Northern California in recent years. Both stories point out how the conflict between state and federal laws has effectively stymied attempts to […]
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Manny Machado Named KIEM News Director
From sports scores to news reports: Longtime KIEM Sports Director Manny Machado has been named the station’s next news director, filling the position last held by the polarizing Betsy Lambert. Station Manager Roy Frostenson announced Machado’s promotion to the station’s staff this afternoon. “I’m thrilled that Manny has agreed to take on the extra duties […]