Sunday, January 09, 2011

Phoenix | 12 pages of no-holds-barred coverage

The Arizona Republic rose forcefully to the challenge of a headline-grabbing national story yesterday in its own backyard: the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, about two hours southeast of the paper's Phoenix base. Here's the paper's mainbar online, which includes links to the rest of its extensive coverage.


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16 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/09/2011 11:03 AM

    What is holds-barred coverage?

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  2. Jim Hopkins1/09/2011 11:14 AM

    Whoops; thanks. Hed bust. I've now fixed that.

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  3. Anonymous1/09/2011 12:03 PM

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  4. Anonymous1/09/2011 1:41 PM

    12:03 there are plenty of opportunities for foolish quips, this isn't one of them. People died here. People are fighting for their lives in hospital beds. A little respect please

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  5. Anonymous1/09/2011 2:00 PM

    Ariziona did a great job, a reminder about why we are in this business to begin with.

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  6. Anonymous1/09/2011 3:41 PM

    Re: 2:00. I couldn't agree with you more. Actually a number of former Tucson Citizen staffers work for Ms. Giffords and were with her when this happened. Including a former sr. editor who was talking to Judge Roll when he was shot. It's a miracle he wasn't hurt. Several AZ news outlets did a terrific job, the Republic, AZ Daily Star and even the alt weekly, Tucson Weekly, who first broke the story on Facebook even before the dailies had it. Very impressive journalism and heroics on the way around.

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  7. Anonymous1/09/2011 3:59 PM

    I think the New York Times did a much better job than the Republic. And what was with the Republic listing every staffer, including top editors, who contributed to coverage? That is just plain weird.

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  8. Anonymous1/09/2011 4:45 PM

    3:59 you are what makes the blog less than credible at times. Si no matter what a Gannett property does a non Gannett property always does it better. The folks at the AZ Republic did a great job. Props here my colleagues!

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  9. Anonymous1/09/2011 6:00 PM

    Gee, 4:45, so I am not entitled to my opinion?
    And I resent being lumped in with the many malcontents on this blog.
    I have no vested in Gannett one way or the other. I read both papers side by side today, and I prefered NYT. It is that simple. No agenda.
    I don't work for Gannett and I don't work for NYT.

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  10. Anonymous1/09/2011 6:14 PM

    Both of you are clanging robots. Shut up already.

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  11. Anonymous1/09/2011 6:36 PM

    Relax 6:14 we are all entitled to our opinions. Heck it's Sunday we need a little energy

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  12. Anonymous1/09/2011 7:03 PM

    I followed the NYT during the shooting aftermath, and found them very slow picking up this story given the breathless cable TV coverage. NYT recovered with what eventually was a good story. Another observation on our changing media is the WPO opened up its pages to comments, and got a torrent (4,000 plus) of political flame wars I found perversely interesting. I can't recall if other political-oriented shootings like that of George Wallace got this sort of reaction.

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  13. Anonymous1/10/2011 11:45 AM

    Phoenix New Times doing a hell of a job on this story, including piece on his high school mate. Where's the Republic on this?

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  14. Anonymous1/10/2011 9:58 PM

    11:45 oh please the PNT has nothing. We get it you hate The AZR. But please, they are all over thus story there is no comparison.

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  15. Anonymous1/11/2011 1:01 AM

    This thread is collapsing into ruin with people trying desperately to smear Gannett through unsourced, inaccurate innuendo.

    So this is a good place to say USA Today's editorial about the incident was solid. It was a little simplistic but generally good.

    It would be fun if every day, someone countered the baseless criticism by pointing out an example of something good.

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  16. Anonymous1/16/2011 7:49 PM

    The former Tucson Citizen staffers at TucsonSentinel.com were among the very few who did not have to retract a story that Giffords had been killed. They may have been the crew that first reported she was still alive.

    The Republic, meanwhile, was posting unconfirmed and ultimately false reports, such as that someone fired back at the shooter.

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