Found this column by Crain's blogger Bill Shea on some Michigan Citizen charges against the Detroit Free Press and its coverage of soon-to-be former Detroit Councilperson Monica Conyers.
The story is one thing, but the comments back and forth between Bill and the subject of his story is also good reading.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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You know, I don't think I really fully appreciated the power of paragraph spacing until now.
WAPO is really reaching out for revenue.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24441
That's using "journalist" in the broadest possible way.
Scrappy alternative papers have a valuable place in the community. Unfortunately, they usually attract zealots and conspiracy theorists like Bukowski, who are more concerned with picking fights with the "establishment" paper than doing real reporting. I must have been getting my Diprivan IV when her name was called during the Pulitzer announcement.
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