Well, at least one newspaper in Washington state appears to think that a constitutional standoff between the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Public Lands is newsworthy… The Wenatchee World:
A dispute between Public Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark and State Attorney General Rob McKenna is scheduled to go before the Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday.
At issue is whether McKenna’s office should be forced to appeal an Okanogan County judge’s decision that allows the Okanogan County PUD to condemn state land to build a transmission line from Pateros to Twisp.
It’s not much of an article, and the World apparently didn’t assign a copyeditor to check for typos, but at least they assigned a reporter, and that counts for something. So watch out Seattle Times, you’re about to get scooped on a precedent setting case by more than just a foul-mouthed blogger.
The News Tribune beat them by a week. Though it can barely be called an article.
There was a time when journalists took pride in scooping the competition, but now there’s not enough people left in newsrooms to even think about that.
In fact, it can’t be called a TNT article at all. They merely picked up something from the Associated Press feed.
If K.C. Mehaffey of the WW “borrowed” information from the AP or anyone else, there’s no indication of it (which would constitute plagiarism) in today’s article.