The news that Rushton's order 9f on last night's Council agenda didn't pass a council vote last night is the story they printed in today's paper...
But it's no longer linked to the day's news online, so I guess it's okay that they originally reported news that was exactly wrong in the print edtiion.I think the next change at the T&G should be to start printing a whole new section every day, just to list corrections. It's bad enough that they have so much trouble meeting their deadlines, lately, but getting the local news wrong?
Timeliness and national coverage are no longer the key information links for a paper like that, since those aspects were long ago usurped by other media. The only thing a daily paper has left is local coverage and its credibility...
Meanwhile, over on WoMag's Daily Wisteria Blog, Scott managed to report the news correctly, even before the T&G deadline.
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It is absolutely and utterly pathetic. It also looks as though the only way they caught this was the WoMag post; otherwise, we'd all be wondering.
You're also right that the only reason many of us are still getting and reading the T&G is for the local reporting. Now that I'm doubting every single report they make--especially those that involve numbers--I'm beginning to wonder at the wisdom of that.
Well, I certainly can't give up on them... Daily newspapers are still the main hard copy record. I look at the daily paper as the hard copy archive of history as it unfolds, and there has yet to be an alternative to this particular aspect of media.
Research for historical records relies on this running archive. I still can't see researchers running videos of old TV news shows to find what they're looking for.
Internet archives can be changed at the drop of hat, too. So, the hard copy, printed Daily newspaper is still the official record.
They just have to make sure they get it right the first time.
It's great to have a hard-copy archive of history, but not when you have to double-check each story against the next day's to see if there's a correction.
The people at City Hall are already pretty fast at getting the agenda + votes up on their webpage. The City videos all the meetings, and I bet the time is also coming when that video is available online.
In that world, what value would T&G coverage of meetings have, if the T&G were not close to 100% accurate? You could get the results of the votes from the City website, and watch the video for yourself if it were an issue you cared about. Surely random bloggers and political obsessives would point out the votes of particular interest.
Unless the T&G provides both accuracy and insight in its coverage, that job will be taken over by passionate amateurs.
Here's a quote from today's Jordan Levy show, "...how does this HAPPEN???"
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's T&G, and if there will be any explanation for their total incompetence with that story.
And there wasn't.
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