Talk:The Mercury News

message: :"The Merc's sections vary by day of the week, but Business, Sports, and The Valley are standard daily fare."
...Except in those areas which get The Peninsula (or The East Bay?) instead of The Valley. And the A section--and of course the Classifed[ ads]--are fairly standard fare. :-)
—wwoods 20:57, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merc

message: The SJMN has a national presence as it is online. I seem to recall it was one of the first newspapers to go online. When did that happen? When did newspapers generally go on the 'Net? Paul, in Saudi 13:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Online

message: The paper is also commonly known as the "Murky News".  Can anyone find a reference for this?  18.26.0.5 (talk) 17:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

message: *Could someone create an article for the former Publisher Jeff Kiel? Thanks! Jccort (talk) 18:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for article 

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message: Gary Webb's 1996 series "Dark Alliance" was one of the most controversial stories to appear in the Mercury News, and the paper eventually published a column saying the series fell short of its standards.  It would be better to present this in a separate section on "controversies" rather than drop it into the middle of the section on the paper's history. Also, the description of the paper's political tendencies previously used was from Cockburn and St. Clair's book on CIA involvement in drug smuggling, which has a chapter on "Dark Alliance."  This represents their opinion, which I see no reason to regard as notable or authoritative, so I've removed it. If you disagree, please let me know why you think it is here. Rgr09 (talk) 23:22, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revising presentation of "Dark Alliance" controversy 

message: Oddly, this article continues to attract off-topic edits on the "Dark Alliance" series controversy. The 1998 CIA OIG report on the series' claims is presented in the Gary Webb article. If there is a problem with the presentation, please edit there, not here. Rgr09 (talk) 14:45, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  More on controversies section 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Glad someone created this page, but....
Four people, including me, are called "political reporters." First the proper term is POLITICS reporter. No one says "Educational reporter." That beat is "education reporter." 
Second, I didn't cover politics. I primarily covered government, but my job was mostly defined by geography. 
Politics and government are not synonymous.  
You could just refer to me and many others as reporters. You could call me San Mateo County reporter or a San Francisco Peninsula reporter.
I can send clips if someone wants verification that I covered Los Altos and later Sunyvale city government; East Palo Alt; San Mateo County government and at times local cities and school boards. 
Thanks. David Cay Johnston
Davidcay (talk) 17:17, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the descriptions to just "reporter", as requested. For the most part, I copied the other descriptions from the respective articles, but I can make more corrections if needed. – Minh Nguyễn 💬 10:24, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  inaccurate characterizations of Mercury News reporters