So I’m sipping on coffee and munching on strawberries this morning up here in Snobsdale when I come across an interesting article on the front page of The Arizona Republic. I couldn’t help but smile as I read the article on how horrifying wait times are in AZ emergency rooms.

I’m sure you all remember Dave Devine’s well written article State of Emergency, which he wrote on the same issue … but way better and more interesting. It’s really funny how much the Republic‘s attempt on the same issue is not only uninteresting but redundant at parts. Situations like this never fail to bring a smile to my face and evoke an overwhelming feeling of pride for the good old TW.

Here’s to alt-weeklies and Dave Devine!

This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2007.

3 replies on “TW For World Domination! Or, at Least, Superior Writing”

  1. Way back before the Tucson Weekly, there was an unrelated publication called the Tucson Weekly News, edited by John Bancroft and Ray Ring. It was a slim item, and the owner–I think it was Richard Vonier–pulled the plug on it before it really had a chance to hit its stride. But I remember it as a fine weekly, not as pop-culture oriented as the average alt-weekly, but full of good news features that what we now call the mainstream media didn’t publish often or well. I was amused that about two or three weeks after the Tucson Weekly News would carry a very good cover story on, say, the situation with the Seri Indians in Mexico, the Star would come along with its own half-hearted and half-assed version. (And this was when the Star was a pretty good newspaper.) There’s a long tradition of Arizona alt-weeklies out-reporting, out-writing and generally scooping the big dailies. Nice that TW can still do it.

  2. You think that’s bad. I applied for a job at the Arizona Daily Star and was asked by Debbie Kornmiller to submit a list of arts stories ideas as part of my application process. I was turned down for the job, and then watched as, one-by-one, my story ideas turned up in the arts section of the Star. The majority of them were published within a month of my application. WTF was that about?

  3. So that’s what happened

    So Red Star was reading this blog and abruptly steered over to Reel’s blog at:

    http://www.kuatfm.org/jreel/index.cfm

    Scrolled down to June 26 entry and discovered that KUAT’s hourly newsguy Tom Machamer had disappeared to Fiji and passed away on a beach. Maybe he knew. Fiji.

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