I love newspapers

Despite my previous post, I love newspapers and I love the organizations that love newspapers.

Recently, I was watching NBC Network News and two of their top stories were basically quoting The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Man, those TV journalists work hard at getting a story! At least it is not (yet) as bad as radio news, which is basically someone reading stories from the local paper. The publisher of a paper I was redesigning in Wyoming a few years back had a good line: "It's like [our newspaper] for the blind every morning."

Then there is the "local" news on television. They don't want to pay for actual reporters, so we get loads of canned video on usually odd or outrageous happenings from around the country, after the usual bleeding lead stories about shootings, stabbings, accidents and general mayhem.

Thank God for newspapers, sick as they are.

I have some posts backed up, but until this intense summer teaching session is over, I don't have much time....