Comments On: The News & Observer's next life by Fiona Morgan

Re: The News & Observer's next life

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Re: The News & Observer's next life

reformed hack — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:03:48 -0400

The N&O has been at least three newspapers since the 1980s: the risible amateur-hour production emceed by morons and Luddites like Bob Brooks and Claude (The Mod) Sitton; the big, lavishly staffed hybrid formed by submerging the Raleigh Times, a new place that looked even better than it was when you considered where it had come from, a place where people could take chances and try new things and which won a Pulitzer; and this latest, sorry-ass, starveling incarnation. But what the earliest version of the N&O had to offer reporters, at least, compared to the newest version, was the possibility of moving up through a series of increasingly responsible jobs (city hall, county government, statehouse and Washington) and then off to a better paper in a bigger and more interesting town.
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Re: The News & Observer's next life

mobius.hibachi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:49:55 -0400

It's good that the N&O wants to preserve its investigative journalism. It's an important part of a newspaper's mission.
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Re: The News & Observer's next life

David McKnight — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:45:29 -0400

It's amazing to me how many good news and features stories The News & Observer misses every week and not because of inadequate staffing but simply out of either a lack of interest or a lack of desire to get out there on the trail and follow a developing story. I ride Triangle Transit buses most weekdays to a number of locations in and around N.C. State, UNC and Duke in Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham, and if I personally don't see something at each stop which would make for a good news story, then often I will hear comments from fellow riders about various happenings and developments which, if confirmed through proper source checks would make for interesting or even compelling news stories.

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Re: The News & Observer's next life

Stop Dem Liars — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:07 -0400

If the N&O would be a bold watchdog over all of government it would be worth buying. In the meanwhile, I like most people cannot see a reason to spend our money buying a party propaganda sheet.
Posted by Stop Dem Liars

Re: The News & Observer's next life

MichaelB — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:27 -0400

It frustrates me how little thought newspapers currently appear to give to capitalizing on one of their greatest assets, their back archive. The N&O has in its archives 150 years of North Carolina history that you can't get to.
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Re: The News & Observer's next life

trish, comic mom — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:31:35 -0400

After decades of fulfilling the propaganda requests of the establishment elite, whether Democrat or Republican, as if there's much difference between the two, major newspapers seem shocked when the Internet's perceptive bloggers are more fascinating and revealing than newspapers' often one-sided statist views. In newspaper-land, government schools, vaccinations, and laws that limit freedom are celebrated.
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Re: The News & Observer's next life

Jamesb33 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:06:09 -0400

that's what it's all about - making $$. The "market" (people who purchase the news) can only decide who fills their needs and where they determine their 'money' goes.
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