Are you ready to vote March 2?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

You have filled our Viewpoints pages with your letters to the editor, presenting an exquisite problem for us. To make room for these letters, candidate guest columns and the Victoria League of Women Voters' candidate questionnaires, we've had to shelve ...

Who is your role model?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

I don't usually share e-mails floating around the Internet, but this one from my father made me smile today. Subject: Fw: Who's Your Role Model Find out who truly is your role model DON'T SCROLL DOWN YET! FIRST, do the ...

KAVU gets picked up by national site

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

KAVU's interview this week with Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina made it to the big time Friday. MSNBC's Mark Murray embedded a YouTube clip from the station's news broadcast in his "First Read" blog. You may viewing it by clicking ...

Should the media use catchy names for criminals?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

A serial rapist terrorizes elderly women in small towns around us. In the course of reporting on this continuing story, San Antonio media dubbed this criminal "The Twilight Rapist." At our recent ethics board meeting, we discussed a reader's complaint ...

Readers offer insight into thorny Google question

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Members of our electronic reader advisory board had much to say about the professor's request to somehow alter the Google search results regarding his name. Almost all of our advisory board members said the Victoria Advocate shouldn't agree to the ...

Will you join our growing reader advisory board?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

More than 100 people responded last week to our request to join our new electronic reader advisory board. We still have plenty of room for you in the virtual meeting room. To join, please go to the Victoria Advocate Google ...