Those of you who are regular readers (I think there are some out there) know that I am a weekly reader of the Fort Worth's Star Telegram's Barry Schlacter. He writes two columns alternating between a beer tasting and then his 'Beer Sphere' where he writes on various beer related topics. For example this week's article is on books to buy the beer lover for Christmas. Its been nice to see a main stream newspaper in Texas writing not only about craft beer, but promoting Texas Beers as well. As far as I know he is the only regular contributor to a Texas Newspaper writing about beer. Unfortunately the column mentioned above is his last. Mr. Schlacter reports that due to budget cuts his column (and the weekly wine column) have been cut from the paper. If you appreciate well written beer articles and think that main stream papers should be writing about Craft Beer more, not less, then you're probably ticked off. If you are then you can do what I did and write some of the folks below and let them know:
Executive Editor, Jim Witt at jwitt@star-telegram
Features Editor, Catherine Mallette at cmallette@star-telgram.com
Reader’s advocate, David House, dhouse@star-telegram.com
2 comments:
Is he at least going to join the blogging sphere of the web?
I am not local to you, but I will still write the execs you noted and let them know the importance of covering good beer in the media.
KS,
Not sure if he'll join the blogging sphere. He writes other columns for the Stat-Telegram so I assume he'll continue that, anything beyond I just don't know.
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