Enquirer takes a minute for introspection
In a recent blog entry, Editorial Page Editor David Wells takes a moment to question the content that fills the pages of newspapers:
It's important to note that Wells provides three links to the type of news people should be reading: Iran, Dick Cheney having to testify, and a misplaced $12 billion – all stories from the New York Times.
Conspicuous in its absence is the example of good journalism we should be reading from the Cincinnati Enquirer (currently their top story is about a high school basketball game).
Either irony is completely lost on Wells, or he is growing tired of the editorial choices made by the Enquirer.
The Enquirer has been participating in fast-food journalism for some time now, so if Wells' confusion is genuine, color me baffled. You can't feed people Big Macs every day and then wonder why they turn up their nose when you try to feed them broccoli.
Iran is threatening to go nuclear, the vice president may have to testify in a Washington criminal trial and Congress is investigating what happened to $12 billion in cash that was sent into Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein and might have ended up in the hands of insurgents now shooting at our soldiers.
So what stories have enthralled the public in print, broadcasts, blogs and comment boards for the past three days?
Anna Nicole Smith and the off-course astronaut...
How, when and why have stories that used to be fit only for supermarket tabloids been elevated to the mainstream?
It's important to note that Wells provides three links to the type of news people should be reading: Iran, Dick Cheney having to testify, and a misplaced $12 billion – all stories from the New York Times.
Conspicuous in its absence is the example of good journalism we should be reading from the Cincinnati Enquirer (currently their top story is about a high school basketball game).
Either irony is completely lost on Wells, or he is growing tired of the editorial choices made by the Enquirer.
The Enquirer has been participating in fast-food journalism for some time now, so if Wells' confusion is genuine, color me baffled. You can't feed people Big Macs every day and then wonder why they turn up their nose when you try to feed them broccoli.
Labels: Cincinnati, media, National Politics
