Rick Holmes and Bob Unger say loss of local news accompanied by loss of identity.
From our friends at Common Wealth, Bruce Mohl talks with two former editorial writers, Rick Holmes from the Metro West Daily News and Bob Unger from the New Bedford Times.
It's a 17 minute pod cast and well worth the listen as it directly ties into what we have lost in our local paper, our own sense of identity.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 11:24 AM
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Thanks for posting. Not familiar with the podcast proceed but to hear Rick Holmes I will figure this out
just click the highlighted url address... it will come up
Interesting idea but I think I agree with him that as we stop reading about what is happening in our own community we lose the value of the local paper. A circular conundrum. If we don't see local news we stop buying the local paper and if we don't buy the paper they can't afford to hire local reporters. But I would do anything at this point to support factual, honest reporting in these days of fake news
Wonder what the old boys from the MWDN think of the people in the ‘ham that think Petroni is a “real” reporter and not just a blogger trying to pass herself off as a reporter.
I guess you could say... The Source won the war. When Gannett started to down size and moved the printing of the paper to somewhere else.... that was the end of getting news reported the next day by qualified reporters.
So much is now left out of the print news, it's hard to justify the dues. But yet, we renewed.
The source is like buying a new washing machine. Shitty quality and reliability. Metro west was like my old washing machine it had good quality and was reliable.
The Source is not by any means a news source. She does nothing more than post what is sent to her. Her goal is always to get it "first on Source" but does not seem to be concerned with whether what she posts is accurate or even valuable. She is also biased and slants her stories to represent her bias, or does not run stories that make her favorites look bad. the Source has a value if you want to read the press releases put out be the City, or letters written by her people, or want to know who graduated from where or who won a high school game. But nothing about anything like the impact of corona virus, or the food insecurities here in Framingham, or the behind the scenes bull shit going on in city government. She does not work hard, and that shows. I stopped reading the Source 6 months ago and have not missed out on anything important happening in Framingham in spite of that. You get what you pay for, and since you don't pay for the Source, you get zero value from what they post.
It might not be as good as the MWDN but I like the Framingham Patch. It looks like there is only 1 reporter covering Framingham but the stories look more researched than the Source.
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