http://21stnews.com/wp08/?p=611 21st News Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:44:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://21stnews.com/wp08/?p=611#comment-279 grant Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:23:22 +0000 http://21stnews.com/wp08/?p=611#comment-279 My apologies to you, Jeff. Somehow I missed your response when it was posted. Anyway, I take your point… I don’t disagree that too many resources were committed, especially given the cutbacks. And I wish the CNNs of the world would send out a bunch of people with flip camcorders or something like them with the aim of doing some digging about the various assertions made by the candidates and their surrogates. CJ should have had a bigger role, too. But I do think the conventions are worth covering... it's just that the coverage should be leaner, but better. My apologies to you, Jeff. Somehow I missed your response when it was posted. Anyway, I take your point… I don’t disagree that too many resources were committed, especially given the cutbacks. And I wish the CNNs of the world would send out a bunch of people with flip camcorders or something like them with the aim of doing some digging about the various assertions made by the candidates and their surrogates. CJ should have had a bigger role, too. But I do think the conventions are worth covering… it’s just that the coverage should be leaner, but better.

]]> http://21stnews.com/wp08/?p=611#comment-161 Jeff Jarvis Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:03 +0000 http://21stnews.com/wp08/?p=611#comment-161 You're missing my real point: It is a shameful misuse of resources to send 15k journalists to the conventions where nothing happens even as 8k journalists are laid off from papers this year atop the 2k last year. Show me the news -- the thing we didn't know and need to know -- we wouldn't have gotten without that many journalists and bloggers there. And I'll show you something more worthwhile for their communities they could do back home. This is about priorities at a time when journalism damned well better be prioritizing. You’re missing my real point: It is a shameful misuse of resources to send 15k journalists to the conventions where nothing happens even as 8k journalists are laid off from papers this year atop the 2k last year. Show me the news — the thing we didn’t know and need to know — we wouldn’t have gotten without that many journalists and bloggers there. And I’ll show you something more worthwhile for their communities they could do back home. This is about priorities at a time when journalism damned well better be prioritizing.

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