For the most part, I definitely agree with you, though I will say that broadcast is inherently inferior to print (whether that's pixels or picas) because it doesn't have nearly the same available space and time in which to tell in-depth stories. Also, broadcast reporters don't usually have nearly the same level of journalism education that print reporters do. (Especially the most recent generations. They're all trying to be Nancy Grace instead of Edward R. Murrow.)
I was interning at the Kitsap Sun in the summer of 2006, when they decided to rebook (change the order of the sections) their paper, and lead with local news instead of national/international.
I thought at the time that that was a brilliant idea. They knew that their readers were undoubtedly getting broader-scale news from other sources, and that their much-smaller paper was in no way going to be able to compete on that level. So they revised their focus to be on items of local interest to their specific readership--going in-depth on Kitsap County news in a way that no one else was.
Unfortunately, their haphazard (at the time) embrace of Web tech still put them behind, but I still think they did the right thing in terms of editorial decisions. (And it's a darn shame my living situation doesn't allow me to work there, because I'd go back in a heartbeat. Damn good people there.)
It's a shame that so little of that is happening elsewhere. Everyone else is trying to be the WaPo or LA Times or something, instead of just stripping down and doing what their reporters do best: What's happening HERE.
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Date: Thu, Mar. 12th, 2009 06:09 pm (UTC)I was interning at the Kitsap Sun in the summer of 2006, when they decided to rebook (change the order of the sections) their paper, and lead with local news instead of national/international.
I thought at the time that that was a brilliant idea. They knew that their readers were undoubtedly getting broader-scale news from other sources, and that their much-smaller paper was in no way going to be able to compete on that level. So they revised their focus to be on items of local interest to their specific readership--going in-depth on Kitsap County news in a way that no one else was.
Unfortunately, their haphazard (at the time) embrace of Web tech still put them behind, but I still think they did the right thing in terms of editorial decisions. (And it's a darn shame my living situation doesn't allow me to work there, because I'd go back in a heartbeat. Damn good people there.)
It's a shame that so little of that is happening elsewhere. Everyone else is trying to be the WaPo or LA Times or something, instead of just stripping down and doing what their reporters do best: What's happening HERE.