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  • Nothing has changed ...

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    Thank you readers for alerting me that I screwed up my blog.
    My bad.

    It is fixed now. We're back online.

    Looks like the Telegraph continues to depend on press releases for stories. We've watched their online front page for the last week. Again, we are amazed that [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 3:00am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • The Portland Arial Tram

    Number of comments: 1
    The view from the Tram








    A view of the Tram from street level








    The tram ...

    It's an amazing sight to see and even a more thrilling ride.

    How high, how [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:48am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Willing to "talk" to anonymous ....

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    But only if "anonymous" will communicate by e-mail ...

    Otherwise, not interested ...

    Up to you ....





    If "anonymous, who keeps asking questions," is NOT willing to provide an e-mail address or an identity, then I think we all know who [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 3:26am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • The river ...

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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 2:56am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Breathtaking ...

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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 2:55am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • What a view ...

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    We love it. [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 2:38am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • No explanation ...

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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 3:46am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • It's saying "YES" to real journalism

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    We stopped relying or depending on out-of-town, corporate-owned media outlets years ago. We learned they are not honest nor dependable.



    For those who choose to believe in them, we pity you.




    But we refuse to argue with you. You [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 2:34am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Wow.

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    Awesome. [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 7:34am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • The Portland adventure

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    Yes, Laura began pharmacy school last week.

    It is an exciting adventure. Previously a medical book editor, Laura has an advanced knowledge of the professional drug culture. I anticipate she will do very well as a Pharm-D candidate.

    Portland is very different than North Platte. It is hilly, [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 7:18am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Thanks Dee Kline, Peter Rogers, et.al.

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    Posters to the Frankly Speaking website counted the number of pages the North Platte Bulletin published the last couple of weeks.

    Unfortunately, they appeared to count wrong on every occasion.

    I know because they posted their page count, wrongly.

    I can only assume the poster is [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 3:31am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Losers scared to stand up!

    Number of comments: 12
    Three posts were deleted from the blog responses because they involved personal attacks and were not backed up with facts.

    We sign everything we post and back up all our comments with actual facts - which separate us from anonymous losers too afraid to post their own names.

    [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 1:36am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Anonymous posters revealed ...

    Number of comments: 6
    Just who would object to a North Platte media man shedding the light of truth about an "out-of-town" corporation's activities?

    Why would an "anonymous" poster care????

    I wondered that as I read the posts from "anonymous."

    This is a person not willing to sign his name [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:16am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Buy local? REALLY!!!!!

    Number of comments: 8
    It’s over.
    The sad part is that people in North Platte don’t realize it yet.

    The “almost” daily news as they know it is over.

    The North Platte Telegraph, owned by an investor group in Omaha, will no longer provide “almost” daily news service.

    It is [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 1:21am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • What it IS in North Platte

    Number of comments: 2
    Laura and I love it here in Portland and are having the times of our lives.

    But we like to keep up with North Platte, the community we left behind after living there 15 years.

    George and Ben are doing a GREAT job of covering the news and [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:59am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • The "almost" daily downward spiral

    Number of comments: 6
    Never thought I’d see the day when once great newspapers were run by corporate weasels with only the bottom line as a measurement of success.
    Once intense competitors have moved over and agreed to share content provided by their corporate headquarters instead of digging to tell their local stories. That's' [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:58am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Greetings from way out west

    Number of comments: 4
    Hello from Portland Oregon.

    Laura and I have settled in here and it is truly amazing. We now live on the side of a mountain and have a spectacular view of the city both day and night.



    It is the exact [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 3:21am EDT
    by Frank L. Graham

  • Sorry I've been so absent.

    Number of comments: 4
    No excuses, just busy.
    Guess I'm back to add to the clutter.
    Enjoy the clip.

    ' [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 2:22pm EDT

  • A legend is gone

    Number of comments: 6
    I'm sure you guys have never heard of him but he was worth knowing. I didn't know Robert Greene personally but I have admired him for years. To me, this is what a reporter should aspire to be.

    Greene was agressive and unapoligetic about the issues he covered. [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2008, 9:50pm EDT

  • Trial coverage

    Seems odd to me that the Omaha-owned, almost daily North Platte newspaper charges for obituarities from local people but is not willing to pay for a reporter to cover the out-of-town trial of two local residents.

    The North Platte Telegraph did not bother to send a reporter to Lincoln [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2008, 11:37pm EDT

  • Defending a 'ghoulish' policy

    Number of comments: 7
    Okay, I admit it. I’ve been lazy for months and haven’t posted to my blog. I’ve heard about it from you guys and promised to fire it up again but it took a ridiculous argument from the “almost daily” newspaper to inspire me.

    A letter to the editor recently [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2008, 5:18pm EST

  • Getting along just fine, thanks

    Number of comments: 3
    Whether you like the members on the North Platte City Council or not, you can say this – the get along with each other respectfully and professionally.

    They disagree but do so in a civil manner.

    That may not sound like a lot until you read this news [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2007, 10:35am EDT

  • Why we're needed

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    KNOP-TV reported tonight that the Grant Nebraska airport received a grant from the government to improve their airport.

    Cool...

    Then they reported that the "grant" would save the taxpayers $150,000.

    Huh?

    It's a government grant, KNOP-TV. It doesn't save the taxpayers anything.
    In fact, it COST [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2007, 11:07pm EDT

  • Keeping them honest

    Number of comments: 1
    Peter Rogers, the publisher of the North Platte Telegraph, recently said at a meeting I attended with him that whenever a Telegraph reporter made a mistake, they acknowledged it and published a correction.

    What he didn’t say was how.
    Today we learned.

    Under a banner headline “Bruning disagrees [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2007, 10:53pm EDT

  • The computer's final crash

    Number of comments: 1
    Police in Hanover, Germany, were summoned to a house after neighbors were awakened by a loud noise. They found the unnamed 51-year-old resident of the home had become so frustrated with his computer that he threw it through his window.

    Officers asked the man to clean up the [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2007, 11:21am EDT

  • First person fiasco

    Number of comments: 4
    Good reporting on a news story includes “looking around” but its not limited to that.

    A reporter who describes a scene but fails to answer questions the story begs to be answered has failed the readers.

    “I drove … I turned … I saw …” is fine but [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2007, 7:33pm EDT

  • Cancelled radio show leaves gap in market

    Number of comments: 1
    Yes, for about the 100th time, our radio show is no longer on the air.

    I decided I had better post an “on the record” account of the former radio show on 1410-AM because a number of people apparently did not see our announcement on the North Platte Bulletin [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2007, 10:20am EDT

  • On the edge

    Number of comments: 1
    People who live on the edge rarely get the benefit of the doubt.

    Most times they probably shouldn't but sometimes they should.

    We're proud this week because we stood up for a man who no one else believed in. In fact, even people who have similar pasts stood [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2007, 11:32pm EDT

  • Lessons from USA Today

    Number of comments: 1
    When Gannett launched USA Today 25 years ago, it insisted on short, breezy stories like those featured on TV newscasts. With little in-depth reporting, it soon became known as “McPaper.”

    USA Today revolutionized how newspapers present graphics and the use of color and succeeded by expanding their circulation [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2007, 9:52am EDT

  • “Possible evidence ...

    Number of comments: 5



    “Possible evidence recovered in double homicide case,” the Telegraph headline said on their website Tuesday. Then, the story promised more if readers only waited until Wednesday.
    “ The Lincoln County Sheriffs posse has recovered what may be important evidence 3-1/2 miles west of North [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2007, 9:42am EDT

  • Never take news from a stranger

    Number of comments: 12
    We wondered why Telegraph investigative reporter Teresa Wickens quoted liberally from an Associated Press news story Wednesday about an Oregon man who lied his way across the U.S. last summer. This guy, named David McCarthy, apparently told people he was riding across the country after the loss of his wife [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2007, 10:21am EDT

  • Oh, how the mighty have fallen

    Number of comments: 6
    Bulletin employees honestly thought that North Platte’s (almost) daily newspaper would rise up and stand on its hind legs when we began the Bulletin four years ago. We believed competition would make us all better.

    Unfortunately, the opposite has happened.

    The once-good North Platte Telegraph has failed utterly [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2007, 11:06pm EDT

  • Is civility dead on the Web?

    Number of comments: 1
    The Talk Back section of the North Platte Bulletin online was created in 2003 to offer readers a chance to have a dialogue on local news stories of the day. Thousands use the Talk Back section and most are civil.

    However, the discussions sometimes degenerate into arguments and have [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2007, 11:21am EDT

  • The wound was self-inflicted

    Number of comments: 4
    The North Platte Bulletin has entered our fifth year of publishing this week. That’s 209 weekly newspapers in a row since April 2003.

    That’s also nearly 12,000 news stories published and literally hundreds of thousands of letters and Talk Back responses since our humble beginnings.

    Why do [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2007, 10:59pm EDT

  • What's in a name?

    Number of comments: 0
    The Cincinnati Post originally reported this story. I enjoyed it because it reminded me of a story we did last year of a North Platte man who said he was justified to steal money from the local Subway because he was with the CIA.


    A man claiming to [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2007, 3:29pm EDT

  • When bad writing is funny

    Number of comments: 4
    Okay all you aspiring writers out there. Pay attention to these rules.

    A friend sent me these and they are priceless. I have no idea where they came from but they deserve your attention.

    English Solicisms 101:
    • Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
    [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2007, 12:56am EDT

  • Hagel

    Number of comments: 1
    Our esteemed Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel made the Daily Show last night.
    Host Jon Stewart parodied Hagel’s non-announcement like this:

    “Hey everybody, come here! Come over here! C’mon, come here already … I got nothing for you.”
    Hagel has hinted that he might be interested in a [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2007, 12:42pm EDT

  • Spring time on West Sixth Street

    Number of comments: 1
    Ever since moving to Nebraska 12 years ago I’ve been fascinated with the weather. Before moving north, I have lived in less severe climes like Texas and California.

    We love the weather here. The extremes seem to me to be the way God intended weather to be – cold [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2007, 5:10pm EST

  • Fox out of the henhouse; Libby guilty

    Number of comments: 13
    The deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Hospital elicited this response from the Fox News Managing Editor Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday:

    “This is unfortunate. It looks terrible, which is the problem. The problem is that it looks as if this administration, which has sent troops into [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2007, 3:11pm EST

  • Step 1: Admitting you have a problem

    Number of comments: 10
    I am relieved to hear President Bush say that his administration will begin diplomatic discussions with Iran and Syria.

    The New York Times reported Wednesday that the U.S. has agreed to hold high-level diplomatic discussions with Iran and Syria and to start down the path toward formal diplomatic [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2007, 5:16pm EST

  • Ever wonder where the news is coming from?

    Number of comments: 0
    Former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll worried that without the investigative skills of newspaper reporters, an important element of news gathering may be lost.

    On an episode of the PBS TV show Frontline, Carroll said, "I estimate … that 85 percent of the original reporting that's done'" [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2007, 6:33pm EST

  • A discovery of historic proportions

    Number of comments: 5
    Being a small part of the discovery of an important historical event in North Platte that had been lost for 90 years was the highlight of the month for me.

    Since moving to North Platte in 1995 and discovering its rich history, I’ve enjoyed researching historical details for news [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2007, 1:21pm EST

  • ...Special orders "might" upset us ...

    Number of comments: 0
    Ran across this story this weekend and it reminded me of a North Platte case we covered nearly 10 years ago.

    A 25-year-old mother of three from North Carolina was convicted last month in Virginia of throwing a missile into an occupied car. The missile was a cup of [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2007, 10:53am EST

  • The silence is deafening

    Number of comments: 8
    The mystery surrounding Nebraska running back Marlon Lucky’s health is interesting to watch. It’s curious because there has been so little real information coming out.

    Lucky was taken to BryanLGH West Sunday night by ambulance. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that Lucky was unconscious when rescue workers arrived at [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2007, 5:57pm EST

  • Odds and ends ... continued

    Was shocked to see the San Diego Chargers fired head coach Marty Schottenheimer Monday night. Let's see, he coached the most successful team to an NFL best 14-2 record last season. Not good enough for the Chargers. Owner Dean Spanos cited a dysfunctional relationship with the general manager as the [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2007, 2:00pm EST

  • Telegraph regrets the error

    Yikes! The North Platte Telegraph ran the longest correction I have ever seen on their front page Friday, January 19.

    The epic correction ran above the fold and at the top of the page and was so long it had to be jumped inside to page 2.
    [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2007, 3:53pm EST
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