Newsletter
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Should Advocate publish photo of Osama bin Laden's body?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We had a lively discussion during Tuesday afternoon's news meeting about the possibility the White House would release a photo showing Osama bin Laden's body. The United States is considering releasing the images to quash doubts about whether the al-Qaida ...
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'Just passing along the awakening'
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
As an editor, I hope to somehow encourage journalists to do their best. When they do, I am always in awe of their commitment, courage and compassion. Work like our Sunday installment of "A Father's Strength" renews my faith in ...
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What can we learn from an outside view?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
The story of some community leaders' effort to switch the University of Houston-Victoria to the Texas A&M System reached the New York Times on Sunday. The story, which appears on A27 of the Times' national edition, was written by Reeve ...
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What do the judges have to say?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
When you compete in Texas, you've gone up against the best. In the annual Texas Associate Press Managing Editors contest, the Victoria Advocate competed against newspapers ranging from daily circulations of 30,000 all the way up to 125,000. The only ...
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Why are mental health issues so taboo?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Our discussion leader closed our meeting Monday with a somber statistic: Twenty-four people committed suicide during the six hours we talked about media coverage of the issue. During the day, we reviewed updated recommendations for reporting on suicide and talked ...
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Will a Victoria teen make it big?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
I'm a big fan of the big voices of Joss Stone and Christina Aguilera. Your Advocate featured last fall a Victoria teen who might end up being the next Joss or Christina. I'm not the only one who thinks 17-year-old ...
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Have you heard a sermon from behind home plate?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
My kids and I had the privilege of listening to the Rev. Bill Hassel's sermon from home plate in the Riverside Park stadium. Pastor Bill, as most call him, delivered his address with the aid of a digital recorder, but ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Those of us lucky enough to be in the Welder Center in early December feel a special connection to Craig Fox and his children. Fox has been battling ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, for three years. He and ...
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Taking me back to where I once belonged
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
My brother routinely forgets family birthdays, but randomly sends me stuff like a license plate from our home state featuring a beloved Beatles song. I proudly display this on the white board in my office. When the familiar chords of ...
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How much does weather bring us together?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Victoria native Tammy Reyes has never seen snow fall in her hometown. Perhaps that's why she was the perfect person to write the Advocate's lead headline for Friday's front page. We were searching Thursday night for the right three or ...