: As real as it gets…Beef up the B section!…
Earlier this week I wrote about the importance of local news, or, rather, how some journalists misunderstand its value. Check out this entry by Tim Porter. I agree with his conclusion
that newspapers will live or die on how well they reflect and connect to their communities, something that can only be measure in the amount and quality of local reporting…Editors perennially wonder what it is readers want. Ask them and they’ll tell you: Local news.
There is just no overstating the importance to a community of good reporting of local civic issues. That new school bus issue I mentioned, the one that seems soooooo boring to young journalists coming off the national attention of a presidential campaign, is exactly the stuff of civic life for the vast majority of people.
