April 27, 2010

Trib's Rays story an instant replay

Thanks to the excellent Noah Pransky of Tampa's WTSP-TV, whose Shadow of the Stadium blog notes that that Sunday Tampa Tribune piece I went off on yesterday was actually a Thursday Tampa Tribune piece that that Trib reprinted on Sunday. On the front page.

Writes Pransky: "Never in my life have I seen a newspaper reprint a cover story from Thursday's paper on the cover of its Sunday paper. Not even my high school paper - desperate for material when Mr. Maddon wasn't cracking jokes over the loudspeaker - would re-print stories."

Pransky also takes the opportunity to re-link to his own post from last Thursday conveniently listing all the recent Trib articles arguing for a new stadium. Looks like the paper is trying to relive its old days of the Buccaneers stadium battle, when the Trib's managing editor (according to one of his staffers at the time), declared, "Our coverage of the stadium will be limited to finding solutions for it to be built."