ESTÚPIDO SAVANNAH - Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:49:57 PM
You can recall the search parties. I’m still here.
Summer doldrums have set in. Maybe it is the fireworks, maybe it is just the idea of a rapidly warming laptop on a 104* day, whatever the cause, the effect is that I just don’t feel like writing. Today, however, I have chained myself to the desk Hemingway style in order to churn out at least one brief missive this week.
I often complain about the level of journalist on journalist action that we get here. One of the curious perversions I’ve found in our local media is their seeming inability to report on themselves and each other. I mean, really, they report on every other industry in town but seldom if ever focus their novelty magnifying glasses on their own business.
Today I found a decent, albeit rare, example of what I would like to see happen in Savannah.
Katherine Ludwig had a cover story on Media General in what passes for an alternative newspaper in Charlottesville VA this week. Her question: What will Media General’s financial woes mean for their daily paper, The Daily Progress?
The story is overly long, makes some dubious jumps in logic and gives far too much credit to Media General talking heads, former MG employees and academics but at least they did it.
They took the time to examine the media business and what the debt ridden corporate giant is doing to the quality of news in their community.
Will anyone in Savannah have the huevos rancheros to even try?
