Monday, November 12, 2007

Newspapers--important OR interesting?

Too many newspapers are too important and not very interesting.

Too much tactical news and not enough info. that really rocks readers.

Will Atkinson, my former student and a May 2007 graduate of Winthrop University, sent me this piece about most e-mailed stories by readers.

They're not, apparently, e-mailing many pieces about the Iraq war or the budget or city council meetings or police reports.

What they're sharing with each others, is, well, stories about nuns, parrots, people eating out of dumpsters, sex...

When will newspapers start to "get it"?

2 comments:

Scaless said...

I agree sex sells. I'm sick of hearing about the Iraq war. They need to add a little diversity in the newspapers.

carolina magic said...

Yes, yes, yes. Well put. Seems like such a common sense notion. Let's home someone in the print press is reading this.