David Brauer says: I was only referring to Wizard's notion that the StribWM: The Strib has the job of ranking stories. The story shuffled to
had overplayed this story, and make the point that interesting things
rank high in public attention, not just important things.
B3, on evidence tampering by MPD and the City Atty.'s office inability to describe how evidence is processed, was a very important, ongoing story, the results of which will affect all our lives. Johnson-Lee's ticket does not. All the filler in Olson's story was filler in a filler story. Granted, some folks are interested in that brand of trivia, but they'll look for it on B3 or even B5 or B8.
WM: Going by content and presentation doesn't half do it in my opinion. Having heard stories of editor tampering (some of it shameful, imho) at the Strib before, I know better than to believe what's on the page. If you're reading Eric Black or Doug Grow, maybe they have better control over their material. Olson probably has very little control over her stuff.Peter Schmitz responds: Speaking for myself, I go by the content, presentation and quality of the reporter's writing.
Peter Schmitz says: it was Ms. Olson's choice to write this non-story,WM: I wouldn't count on that being the case. General assignment means just that--the Ed. says do it, you do it, period.
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