tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16851450.post7780592907355823239..comments2023-10-02T02:13:03.731-07:00Comments on Creativitity: Newspapers: who needs them?The Daily City®http://www.blogger.com/profile/11839089206179529879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16851450.post-62902106218388406352008-08-26T07:33:00.000-07:002008-08-26T07:33:00.000-07:00As a fellow blogger, newspaper reporter and reader...As a fellow blogger, newspaper reporter and reader of your blog, I respectfully say you're nuts.<BR/><BR/>Reason: 9/11. You can't cover anything close to a major breaking tragedy without a large stable of real news reporters. And for the first few days, that story was, for the most part, a breaking-news story. <BR/><BR/>Locally: Just this year, we had Tropical Storm Fay, the St. Johns River flooding, the Palm Bay fires, the huge I-4 crash, The Palms triple-murder, the Caylee anthony case...etc.<BR/><BR/>Also, on the non-breaking news front--we have the building of the local venues. You can't keep the people spending hundreds of millions of dollars honest without a reporter covering the dull stuff like bond issues and zoning changes, etc. <BR/><BR/>And really, no one will pay for the non-sexy stuff except for a large news organization. What workaday citizen puts up $10,000 cash for a bond-issue story and the risk that the investigative project doesn't find what he wants?<BR/><BR/>Willoughby<BR/><BR/>www.orlandosentinel.com/homicide<BR/>www.orlandosentinel.com/murdermapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com