I thought that was their job-description. Chalk that one up under bad press reporting #... Oh, I lost count.
If ET finds two or three more people with the capacities of Fran (although they are a rare breed), coupled to the expertise already here, I'd think there would be a very potential competitioner to the Independent.
What I mean is that news stories will tend to lose importance as primary sources. Agency wires, institutions' press releases, should be the primary material that is analysed unless the purpose is to analyse/debunk consensus newspeak itself.
News stories provide the necessary pointers to dig up the original sources.
The genuinely interesting content that newspapers provide, then, the little that is written by their correspondents, and opinion/analysis pieces. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
And I know that ET, in current status, does not have the reader's input for what I described. But a man can dream. Hey, in 5 years or so, the baby boom generation should have been completely retired and daily active on the web... (Although I wonder how progressive they are...)
On the other hand, Democracy Now had had the daughter of an El Pais writer as an intern, and they used her as a Spain-based correspondent when they needed it. That was neat. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
I stopped reading the international section of Hungarian papers around three years ago for similar reasons. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I don't see the point of "correspondents" who copy-paste from the wire. What an ill name for an increasingly outdated concept.
Talk of differing expectations. Yes, I'd wish every newspaper would do that, especially on the web, but I long ago gave up expecting scientific literature standards from even top-quality general media - or to expect the majority of readers wanting that. (For the majority their papers are still "newspapers of record".) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
