Talk:Public News (Houston)

Street address

http://globalcontact.com/gc/directory/search.php?table=USBIZ&company=PUBLIC+NEWS gave "PUBLIC NEWS 2038 LEXINGTON ST HOUSTON, TX 77098-4222 Contact: BERT WOODALL"

I'd like to confirm this... WhisperToMe (talk) 10:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

https://homemetry.com/house/2038+LEXINGTON+ST,+Houston+TX also indicates public news as a past owner (it's now a law office) as does:

• Recording Industry Sourcebook. Ascona Communications. 1998. p. 94.

WhisperToMe (talk) 17:35, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

http://www.autographsystems.com/sti/discussion_list/helix9510.txt indicates the website was http://www.neosoft.com/publicnews WhisperToMe (talk) 15:27, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

• Probably was the URL sometime before 1996, and the Wayback Machine doesn't go that far. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:06, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Articles available online

Listed here, from 1996 to 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/20000303121454/http://www.publicnews.com:80/pnews/index.html although the Wayback Machine might have missed some.

Sadly I don't know who has the articles from 1982 to 1999. Did the Houston Press receive the archives/microfilms? Did Bert Woodall keep any? I am not sure. I hope Woodall's substance abuse didn't inhibit/prevent archiving or cause the old articles to be lost.

These might not be RSes (Woodall's issues would have interfered with his job) but one might indirectly get a tip to an actual RS, or maybe it's ok for this subject. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:56, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Characterization of work share

@DoggerelBanks:

Hi! I examined the edit changes here and I see some of the disputed sentences were cited to Claudia Kolker's article. As per WP:V, content generally needs to reflect secondary sourcing about an article, and Claudia Kolker's article would count as such.

I used my library card and accessed Houston Public Library's Chronicle database. The cited article:

• Kolker, Claudia (1998-07-19). "Public News' demise silences counterculture 'drums'". Houston Chronicle. Houston. pp. 29A, 30A – via NewsBank.

I re-read the article and see that I had focused on Woodall because Kolker did so in her article (she stated: "[...]it was Woodall whose personality saturated it"). The statements about the low pay and some working for no pay, and Woodall having less of a role in his paper than would be expected came from Kolker's article. If you have questions about particular statements, I can find the source sentences in Kolker's article.

If you want, I can send you the Kolker article so you can have a look.

WhisperToMe (talk) 04:00, 5 August 2024 (UTC)