Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal

June 23, 2003

Fanfare for the common man…

Sheryl McCarthy is wary of man-on-the-street interviews re: the Greg Packer affair. But, she says:

Sometimes by being out on the street, mingling in the crowd, hearing what people say, we’re able to catch what’s in the wind, and it changes the whole direction of a story. That’s more valuable than anything we pick up in the newsroom–provided we avoid the Greg Packers of the world.

And here’s my idea for what newspapers could be doing instead.

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