So-Called News
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 7:51 pm
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Kramer hires Effenberger: As former City Pages editor Steve Perry announces plans for his new news-and-conversation website, former Strib publisher Joel Kramer has signed on another key staffer for his online newspaper. According to Brian Lambert, former Pioneer Press editor Don Effenberger is on board. Kramer, who according to Lambert may model the site, in part, after voiceofsandiego.org, is expected to send out an official press release on Monday outlining the new site.
So-called “reporting”: Lambert also mentions that Kramer has met with a number of area media outlets, including MPR, to discuss partnership possibilities. That’s news to Bill Wareham and others at MPR. At the News Grid blog, he writes, “Brian Lambert’s latest ‘reporting’ over at the Rake is raising a few eyebrows around here… I’m not saying such talks absolutely couldn’t be occurring. This is a big company with a lot of tentacles, and I’m certainly not privy to everything that’s going on. But checking with folks who’d most likely be involved in such a venture turned up a bunch of denials.”
So-called “memorial service”: How can Strib columnist Katherine Kersten attempt to make a higher-ground appeal about politicizing tragedies like the 35W collapse when she uses quote marks to refer to Sen. Paul Wellstone’s “memorial service”? Her main point in the column “Bridge Collapse Ought to Unite Us, Not Divide Us” is pretty feeble, but she lost me before she even got to it. “The Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi collapsed just before I left the country for 10 days,” she wrote. “I hated leaving in the midst of one of our state’s greatest disasters. Journalism, after all, is about instantly weighing in on important matters.” Isn’t journalism about reporting, fairly, events of the day, not about “weighing in” on anything? That’s what opinion columnists do. And given Kersten’s newsgathering track record — she was hired at the Strib, without reporting experience, straight out of the Center for the American Experiment — it seems even “journalist” (with quotes around it) might be a stretch.
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Comment posted August 21, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
Paul, as a “journalist” you should “recognize” Kersten’s “reporting” style She’s been using that annoying little quotation trick since before she was hired. You’d think employee orientation would’ve wised her up, if not outright ridicule from the newsroom – although maybe she never ventures into the newsroom.
Thus, her confusion about the meaning of “journalism.”
Comment posted August 21, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
Paul, as a “journalist” you should “recognize” Kersten's “reporting” style She's been using that annoying little quotation trick since before she was hired. You'd think employee orientation would've wised her up, if not outright ridicule from the newsroom – although maybe she never ventures into the newsroom.
Thus, her confusion about the meaning of “journalism.”
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