[Seattle-editorial] latest story?

[Sheri Herndon]

joseph,

you are completely right.  i agree with your analysis and tactics and i think we must think along these multiple lines.  i guess it was more the cosmic title that threw me and then to just be linking to sfgate.com.  somehow it didn't feel right.  maybe we need to more clearly articulate all these goals to ourselves and to our listeners and include it in our editorial policy.

something some of us on global features have discussed way long ago was this issue of corporate media and linking to corporate news sites.  something pablo from imc brasil and i talked about was that in terms of media critique and educating our readers, by showing the *good* news out there, we could also be doing our job (as you mention) to educate people.  alot of times finding the good information is the hardest part.  exactly.  maybe highlighting it on the site in some way, distinguishing it?  

maybe when we move to sf active or mir or something better than our current code, we'll have this ability to make categories and topics and we can do this with greater ease.

sheri

>How do,
>
>While the story is a little 'cosmic', We do need to link to commercial 
>web sites occasionally. Remember when the Cincinnati Enquirer got in a 
>huff about us publishing one of their copyrighted pictures? We kind of 
>determined that linking is always allowed-even though the link may break 
>someday while a picture will remain. Re-re posting commercially 
>available stories does lack freshness, if nothing else. 
>
>I would like to see a weekly synopsis of the worlds news on our newswire 
>occasionally. I'd also like to see a feature on the hundreds of 
>non-commercial site folks can use to get real news. A link here, a link 
>there; pretty soon we're talking real news. I'd like to see it be full 
>spectrum, so folks can bore down through the right/left wing news they 
>get saddled with. We could include links to AP, foreign nations official 
>newswires, ourselves, etc. 
>
>Part of our job is to teach people how to make the news. Another 
>important part is teaching folks how to consume it. Sometimes just 
>finding it is the hardest part.
>
>Joseph 
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>hi,
>
>i'm really confused about why we have a cosmic question story on the 
>front page that takes us to a commercial website page about 911 making 
>you sick.  in my humble opinion, this is not a story for the seattle imc 
>to be featuring...catching a plane now or i'd comment further....
>it doesn't even link to a local newswire story...
>sheri
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