Archive for January 18th, 2006
What do you want to see in our daily newspaper?
I have just read this, and this with comments and I walked away thinking I should be thankful that we finally have a pulitzer prize any pultizer prize, but I couldn’t help but wish that we had a second pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. Then as I often do I answered myself and said “yeah, right Gloria never in this town. Our newspaper does not take on the hard issues, the ones that win pulitzer prizes for investigative reporting”. And then I thought, hey, now is the time. Now things can change with Alex Machaskee’s retirement.
So then I thought what would I like to see in my daily newspaper
1. more in-depth investigative reporting
2. less opinion shaping (the newspaper does the balanced reporting, we shape the opinions)
3. advertisers that know the value of having a free and independent press
4. a newspaper that is a true community and civic leader
Now with the changing of the guard, it is the time for the Plain Dealer to stand up and become the force behind the new golden age in Cleveland. I wonder if they are up to the task or have the years of oppression taken out the passion in their hearts that caused them to choose journalism as a profession. Time will tell.
What would you like to see when you open The Plain Dealer?
Meet the Bloggers Fundraiser at Pearl of the Orient
Please support Meet the Bloggers by attending our first fundraiser at Pearl of the Orient. From what I’ve heard some of your favorite bloggers will be “celebrity” bartenders and there will be plenty of “good eats” for all of us attending the event.
Although it has been said that bloggers are a group of introverted “wannabes” begging for attention, I would beg to differ. When we get together face to face the conversation is never dull and we are all quite engaging people. Come see for yourself Thursday, January 26th from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 pm.
Support “free speech in cyberspace”!!