What Is the Opposite of Synergy?
Those of you that have visited here for a while know that I have little regard for the local paper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
I've done a couple of posts about it's "USATodayification," doing a poor job of even that lowly goal.
Early this year, it announced that it was going to focus its money and reporting on local news. OK, one would think that given the local genesis of the Michael Vick disaster, there would be an AJC reporter all over the story.
I did a post about my thoughts on the Atlanta NAACP president's comments on the issue yesterday, the link was to the local "Channel 2" website, WSBTV.com. Channel 2 is owned by Cox Enterprises, or something of the sort. Guess who owns the AJC? I bet you guessed right.
With the new emphasis and spending on local news, what did the AJC report? It printed an AP article. The article mentioned none of the stupid things the local NAACP President said, as reported by the TV sister.
If you as the parent company send one sibling to the news conference, OK. But let your kids talk to each other. Don't go outside of the family to report a sanitized version of what was said.
A final thought, I guess AP isn't much of a reliable source for news anymore.
3 comments:
The general decline of the newspaper is going to be the big story of the 21st century. Problem? They'll be no papers to report it in.
Yeah - but they'll blame it all on the web presence and not their methodology of not actually reporting the news on their own beat!
Our local daily - ok, small potatoes for sure compared to the likes of the Atlanta paper et al -wonders why they don't have more subscribers to their rag but they sure don't do anything worthy at times of spending that little two bits a day for the purchase. The area where I live - they tend to regard as "no man's land" or put us in limbo or some such cause things that happen here, rarely make it in to the printed page. One of my favorite bitches here for sure! But since it's virtually the only act around in terms of publishing our school board meeting reports and obituaries, what're you gonna do?
It hasn't been long since the outcry over the demise of the home grown book reviews. I don't link to the AJC from my blog. Not because they are not a good source, but because they require registration (which most of my readers would not want to do). I have found that anything important or noteworthy doesn't take long to show up elsewhere.
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