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Published Monday, August 29, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

MONDAY NIGHT QUARTERSURFING: So much to post over the weekend, that now, here it is Monday night, and time to recap some of the other interesting pieces of journalism worth reading and/or talking about.

-- My friend John D'Anna proves, once again, that the only part of The Arizona Republic worth reading is the Scottsdale edition. One of his reporters made Romenesko today with this story about a guy who moved there after covering Laci Peterson.

-- The Boston Globe changes editors for its Ideas section. Just FYI.

-- Want to know why music critics aren't like other journalists? Read this postscript from David Segal, former music writer at The Washington Post, who asked for a transfer to NYC.

-- The Los Angeles Times covers the same ground I covered last week with this look at "viral" advertising, only with a lot more words (and insight into the marketing of one viral ad). Damn you, LAT! Damn you and your Tribune-owned, million-household circulation newshole!