Panning the Press

Posted on February 19, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

Though I’ve yet to see a mention of it anywhere other than in the Chron, the Houston Press got four letters this week which condemned it for the loss of Tim Fleck. Maybe I oughta try and track him down and see if I can get him to talk about what happened. He probably can’t, but what the heck. I’ll see what I can do. If all else fails, maybe I can put the blogging bug in his ear.

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4 Responses to Panning the Press

  1. Greg Wythe says:
    February 19, 2004 at 5:49 pm

    Feel free to mention that I’m willing to host him for free if he wants to blog. While I’d love to see Fleck get the widest possible distribution for the reporting he does (granted, the Chron may tone him down in the editing room), the man seems pretty well situated to be a hit if he blogs anything like he wrote.

    Make it so!

  2. kevin whited says:
    February 19, 2004 at 10:17 pm

    My favorite letter is the first one, talking about unsubscribing to a free publication.

    Umm, okay.

    Fleck really should go to the Comical. Interesting (even if unsubstantiated) tabloid journalism would be a step up for that rag, and since they don’t believe in editing, it could be really interesting for a big city daily.

  3. Steve Bates says:
    February 19, 2004 at 10:42 pm

    Umm, okay.

    Umm, actually, I believe you actually can subscribe to the Press if you wish, though I’m not 100 percent certain. Many free publications have paid mailed subscriptions available for people who don’t live near a newsstand.

    I confess the Press lost a lot of its appeal for me when Fleck departed. Call him a dogged investigative reporter or call him a scandal-monger, he was, to say the least, seldom boring.

  4. Another Rice Grad says:
    February 20, 2004 at 3:06 pm

    I confess the Press lost a lot of its appeal for me when Fleck departed. Call him a dogged investigative reporter or call him a scandal-monger, he was, to say the least, seldom boring.

    Well, at times he was both.

    Fleck is so much better than that incompetent John Williams.

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