Jim Mork asks: > When I read that Southwest Journal "sniffed out" > a story on noncooperation with immigration > authorities, I wondered once again: Do the small > papers really "sniff out" a certain type of > story? Or is the real fact that the Star Tribune > KNOWS about these stories and decides, for its > own corporate reasons, not to publish them. I > mean how can anyone QUESTION the news value of > such a story?
First, I'd like to think our reporters are good enough to find good stories without it necessarily being a discredit to other outlets. Second, I think the Strib might have passed on this because when we reported on it, the council committee had sent Schiff's action back to him for tweaking. Any approval was (as we have since seen) a month-plus down the road. The Strib's a great big place - and I love beating them to a story - but they cover a lot of stuff every day that we don't have to. It was my news judgment that we go with this story earlier, because it was interesting enough. It was probably theirs that they could wait until the proposal was in its final form before they had to let the world know. I've spent my entire career in "non-corporate" media, so I've lived a life of filling in their blanks and I'm not inclined to cut them slack. But in this case, us jumping on this story early doesn't mean they're coming to the story late. David Brauer King Field Editor, SW Journal TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
