Re: Media taking action in proposed sale

[Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>]

--- Sean Smyth <ssmyth@suscom.net> wrote:
> And how many people were actually willing to talk on
> the record about these
> items? Some reporters nowadays are lazy. They're not
> as aggressive as they
> used to be about following up leads, general
> information, etc. With no
> competition, they can afford to be.

In most cases, the lack of coverage was a result of
bad editorial judgment or laziness, not a lack of
sources.  I think most of the reporters decided on
Monday morning what they were going to write about
that week and unless something really big happened,
that was what they wrote about.  

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

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