In a tactic that's understandable under the circumstances, our two biggest local newspapers, The Vancouver Sun and The Province aren't prominently displaying this fateful story being trumpeted by another news source.
The story did appear earlier on one of the local websites, but was rather quickly shuffled off the main pages here, probably with some reason. But not before its
writer asked for comments, to which I couldn't resist replying.
I said that in an age when we can all get our news from worldwide sources with ease over the internet, having our traditional local sources offering a rehash of other people's headlines, or relaying stories done better elsewhere, or passing off gossip-type stories about the rich & famous as news just doesn't make it. We expect more from our professional news providers, and if anyone ought to know how to do that, it ought to be them. So 'sympathy' is in the dictionary, somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.
No comments:
Post a Comment