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Saturday, December 08, 2007
Hat City: News Times Plays Catch-Up In 5th District
Ok, I'm not sure I understand some blogs. 99 percent of the time they link to newspaper stories, but don't say "Hey look the newspaper beat me to this story." I wouldn't expect the blogger to that, of course. But when a newspaper covers a topic that is of particular interest to a particular blogger, the blogger makes a big deal, waving their arms and yelling 'I had that story first.' With the Internet, does anyone really care who has stories 'first?' Isn't it about who has it 'best?' I will step off my soapbox now, thank you.
I think the point is that newspapers should beat blogs when it comes to reporting stories. In this case, it took the News-Times almost a week to catch up to what Andy, CT Local, and HatCityBLOG reported on regarding a primary challenge in the same district where the News-Times resides.
Unlike newspapers, blogs are run by people who aren't getting paid to provide information to readers.
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Ok, I'm not sure I understand some blogs.
99 percent of the time they link to newspaper stories, but don't say "Hey look the newspaper beat me to this story."
I wouldn't expect the blogger to that, of course.
But when a newspaper covers a topic that is of particular interest to a particular blogger, the blogger makes a big deal, waving their arms and yelling 'I had that story first.'
With the Internet, does anyone really care who has stories 'first?'
Isn't it about who has it 'best?'
I will step off my soapbox now, thank you.
I think the point is that newspapers should beat blogs when it comes to reporting stories. In this case, it took the News-Times almost a week to catch up to what Andy, CT Local, and HatCityBLOG reported on regarding a primary challenge in the same district where the News-Times resides.
Unlike newspapers, blogs are run by people who aren't getting paid to provide information to readers.
My two cents.
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