The Tony Award Nominations

This isn't actually really totally about the Tony Award Nominations which were announced yesterday.

Extensive polling of my thousands of readers indicates that 66% of those polled want me to continue bashing the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

So, even though it is like shooting fish in a barrel and grows tiresome, I'm all about being obliging. And tiresome.

One would think that any and all newspapers in America today would have an article about the Tony Award Nominations. How am I to know what play to see if I'm in New York City next month?

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram did not have an article with a list of nominations.

Instead, on the Live! page in the "People Watch" column under the heading "Tony time" we get the following embarrassing typical Star-Telegram goofy nonsense.

"The 2008 Tony nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and the most nominated show, the Latin/hip-hop musical In the Heights was produced by none other than Fort Worth native Mike Skipper, a Richland High School and Texas Wesleyan University graduate. He lives in Graham (Texas), where he is part-owner of the Wildcatter Ranch & Resort. For a complete list of Tony nominees, visit our Pop Culture District blog at star-telegram.com/blogs"

So, this highly fascinating Texas connection is worth putting in the hard copy version of this lame paper, but the actual Tony Award nominations get relegated to a blog.

Meanwhile, according to the Star-Telegram's Channel Surfing column on the TV page we learn that Ross Matthews, aka Ross the Intern on the Tonight Show, will be on Days of Our Lives today.

No. Ross Matthews is not from Texas. He is from my hometown of Mount Vernon, Washington. I looked at my hometown paper and the TV section felt no need to repeat to its readers something along the line of "Mount Vernon native and Mount Vernon High School graduate, Ross Matthews, will be on Days of Our Lives today."

Mount Vernon has a population of less than 30,000. Fort Worth is approaching a population of 700,000. Which town exhibits the small townish mentality? I'll let you decide.

And then on the Letter to the Editor page we get yet one more disgruntled reader bashing the Star-Telegram. This letter writer/paper reader was vexed by a long article in the Star-Telegram devoted to cheerleading at Carrol High School with the first sentence being "Which is sillier: cheerleading at Carrol High School or the Star-Telegram devoting ever more space to it?"

Now, don't forget to watch Days of Our Lives today. Mount Vernon's own, Ross Matthews, native son and MVHS graduate stars in a bit part that will last a few seconds. So, don't blink or you may miss it.