I always thought the word “news” was found in the word “newspaper” for a reason.
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So Frank Blethen’s kitchen-table newsletter is now so bereft of operating funds that he’s reduced to filling space with submissions by grannies working as volunteer stringers? If he can’t afford professional reporters maybe he should shutter his $150 million printing plant and go to a blog format.
That ‘piece’ in the Times is disappointing considering the story on McChrystal’s comments and forced apology, which rated just one graf at the beginning of the Afghan roundup on Page A3.
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I guess the Times could make an excuse that it’s a small local paper that doesn’t care about things happening far away, but that still doesn’t explain their unwillingness to cover the Goldmark-McKenna story. I think a lot of the local media outlets have completely accepted the idea that the value of a news story is relative to its accessibility.