Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, December 04, 2006


GanNETt has a new gimmick: "Web first, paper second."

Leaving aside that the readers always come last, the clowns who think going local will save them (and that's a big part of the new gimmick) may have a surprise coming. We all know national news coverage stinks because it comes from two or three sources. But JERNALISM's problem is that the consolidation is as much psychical as systemic, and covering local news in the same old national ways will merely mean a slightly different kind of dull. Besides most of us can recite what makes up local news in our sleep: the police blotter, the school board hearing, the city council, the local business, the weather. Can any newspaper make the mundane vitally three dimensional -- especially a chain like GanNETt, which mixes and mashes and pounds everything into one indistinguishable shade of beige?

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