http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/06/altweekly-awards/ COMMENTARY BY CARTOONIST JEN SORENSEN Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:58:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/06/altweekly-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-1830 sandy Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:21:59 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=879#comment-1830 Congrats!! Very well deserved! Congrats!! Very well deserved!

]]> http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/06/altweekly-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-1827 Tom Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:49:45 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=879#comment-1827 I made the mistake of clicking over to the listing of Alt Weekly Awards and spent a *long* time reading articles from the Miami New Times, Cleveland Scene and many others. It was almost enough to bring a tear to the eye of this former newscreature to see that good print journalism lives - just not in the corporate dailies, but in an esoteric collection of weeklies scattered in communities around the nation. Small, scrappy newspapers that do not have editors who say "Write it for a 10th grade level, that's the average reader" and "The publisher wants to see something about this new business" and "Aw, nobody's interested in THAT!" I made the mistake of clicking over to the listing of Alt Weekly Awards and spent a *long* time reading articles from the Miami New Times, Cleveland Scene and many others. It was almost enough to bring a tear to the eye of this former newscreature to see that good print journalism lives – just not in the corporate dailies, but in an esoteric collection of weeklies scattered in communities around the nation. Small, scrappy newspapers that do not have editors who say “Write it for a 10th grade level, that’s the average reader” and “The publisher wants to see something about this new business” and “Aw, nobody’s interested in THAT!”

]]> http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/06/altweekly-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-1826 Matt Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:36:02 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=879#comment-1826 Congratulations! Congratulations!

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