Thanks for the kind words about the protest post.
Got some nasty letters about the article itself. I'm a little surprised I've only gotten two negative comments about the blog post.
But it has made me think...
A number of people have said they'd like to see this kind of thing in the N&R itself. I don't disagree...but how would that work, exactly? There are issues of tone and more imporantly, length. Just because it isn't done now doesn't mean it couldn't be done, but can you really imagine any of these in the actual newspaper:
- A week with the Minuteman Project and Looking into the Minutemen, racism
- A wolf amidst the sheep (an evening with the Southern Baptist Convention)
- Guns, Knives, Tasers, Truncheons! But please...no cameras!
This type of writing doesn't even really even appear on the N&R blogs. It's essentially first-person magazine writing done very quickly. Regularly producing something like this would be a dream job...but it would almost certainly make my current job impossible. Even having an N&R blog where I did this kind of thing could make my job sticky.
But daily newspapers may get there sooner than later.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
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Just out of curiousity... when did the N&R turn on comments? This was the first article I've seen where they've been active. Is this new or have I just been oblivious?
It's been happening for a couple of weeks. They rolled it out slow as there were some bugs and they had to be sure they had a way of verifying peoples' identities, keeping them from posting as other people, etc.
They had been talking about it for a while. I think I made a post a few weeks ago when they went ahead and did it.
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