I sense a shift in how the N&R is regarding their online news offering.
On his blog, at 5:15p, editor-in-chief John Robinson commented on his paper's 4:45p online coverage of the proposed ACC Hall of Champions. I'm confident that story will be a local lead (update: link) on my doorstep about seven hours from now. Along with...
This afternoon @ 3:52p, over at the N&R'sInside Scoop blog, Mark Binker offers a short post about County Commissioner Chairman Bruce Davis' four-day change of heart over whether or not actions taken by our local Board of Health were above board. Davis now thinks the Board, of which he is a member, "may not have voted properly" on its secret agreement with outgoing Health Director Krishnaraj.
Binker adds a 'film-at-11' style teaser, "More to come in in Wednesday's paper (update:link)."
This week's Carolina Peacemaker carries an editorial by James Clingman Jr. that ruined my lunch at Mayberry's today. He notes that the recent tsunami's ghastly death toll is certainly sensational, but the disaster is just a minor event in the overall realities of life and death in Africa....
"Every year ten and a half million African children perish, some through curable and preventable diseases..., and others through combinations of neglect, starvation, poisoning, political mismanagement, local wars and deliberate genocidal policies of criminal, puppet governments. Of course, we are not taking into consideration another twenty million...annual deaths. This means, in human terms, Africa is haemorrhaging (sic) from a disaster much greater in scale than two Asian Earthquake Tsunamis each and every week, year in and year out …”
"...We have gotten so used to following the establishment and have forgotten about our own people, here and abroad. Not to diminish what happened to the people of Asia, but Africa has a Tsunami everyday; where is the U.S. government? Too busy looking for oil in the Motherland perhaps. Where are Black Americans? Too busy waiting for white folks to show us what to do perhaps..." Read it all.
Even though the N&R's editorial chief Allen Johnson hasn't posted anything but "Testing. Text will go here" on his new weblog - he has already attracted a comment with a good idea that could help take some mystery out of the medium for the average Joe...
"...A "How To Blog" section in the "News & Record" might be a service that you could provide, a way to make Blogging less abstract, a tool for drawing more people to your own Blogs."
Such a 'blog primer' would be a good thing for others to provide as well. I know I'd link to it as a service to my readers.
The N&R's editorial department hit the nail squarely on the head this morning...
"...Can Guilford County afford to pay a higher price for top teachers? Perhaps, if leaders think of teachers in terms of value rather than cost."Read it all.
