tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584926941086180198.post7249564733254339545..comments2023-11-02T05:19:19.398-04:00Comments on Doyle Reports: Getting Inside the Newsmaking LoopBeth Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03444673743596132941noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584926941086180198.post-63172794147728027962008-09-17T16:43:00.000-04:002008-09-17T16:43:00.000-04:00Great points. In part, I come to this environmen...Great points. <BR/> In part, I come to this environment as a daily print guy: the dead-tree paper has always been my focus. In fact, I always said I never wanted to be a wire service reporter, for whom minute-by-minute speed was all. Hence, as you acutely observe, my implicit belief that the print version of the story is the one that matters.<BR/> Now, we do wear two hats, and the tasks are not aligned. Or, at least, two distinct goals arise: to be first online, and to be best in print. Which, in turn, suggests to me the print version does need to be qualitatively different; for instance, with more analysis.Some reason, in other words, for a reader to pick up the daily paper even if it comes out 24 hours after the 'news' passes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584926941086180198.post-88303122027822485932008-09-08T16:35:00.000-04:002008-09-08T16:35:00.000-04:00Politicians became adept at media manipulation whe...Politicians became adept at media manipulation when they realized the media was not a monolithic whole. The relentlessly on-message Republicans are seemingly better at this than the Democrats, but this is only a relative advantage.<BR/><BR/>However, I think the really interesting questions here are why are the two McClatchy mediums out of synchronization, thus exposing you and your organization to news cycle interruption/manipulation? Are they competitors? Is one supposed to be Primary and the other Secondary? How does this impact your deadline issues? Your post indicates to me that you consider the Print medium to be primary, as you indicate your article was subject to comments before it actually appeared in Print. Does this view actually make sense in today's the competitive multi-media publishing environment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com