I've been trying to lay off the Flint Journal. Today, however, is an example of why the new organization of the Bay City-Saginaw-Flint alignment is faltering.
Earlier this week, at a time when the Flint Journal was not publishing, the reporters at the Journal initially broke the story of the involvement of the Shiawassee County prosecutor in a drunk driving crash.
Then the following day there was a post that simply linked to television news coverage of the event, which I found odd because the Journal had broken the story.
So today I was waiting to read more about the incident when my dead tree version arrived here at home. Let's be serious, the potential arrest of the elected county prosecutor in a drunk driving accident is big news. I naturally looked at the front page expecting to see the story there.
Nope.
So I turned to Page 2 and 3. Nope, again.
Now I'm getting curious. So I keep digging through the paper and finally find the story on page A-9. The old reporters' saying at the Flint Journal that you never know where you'll find a front page story was never truer than today.
I simply can't fathom the news judgment that doesn't see this as a major story, worthy of front page or at least Page 3 coverage.
It could be that the copy editor laying out the page was confused about the charge because the headline on the story said: "Alochol supsected in prosecutor's crash." Maybe the editor thought alochol was different than alcohol.
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But it's a better paper with more breaking news, remember?
Alochol is a very dangerous substance; it impairs one's news judgment. Alcohol, on the other hand, is what one needs to get through an issue of the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City journal without laughing (or crying).
Love the comment from truthiness!
Perhaps the copy editor had been testing a little alochol himself?
And today they a mention of "prostition" in a column. Not sure what that is but I've heard of prostitution. Do they even have any editors left?
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