News has to get beyond stenography and recording to tell us thungs search engines don't. News must concentrate on "how" and "why.""Local news has become commoditized by the incessant coverage and
promotion of cheap, easy-to-find crime and mayhem. As a result, every newscast
across the country looks and sounds very similar. Is that really a winning
strategy for local news? In effect, local news has become a national network of
disconnected minor mayhem, and as a result has swapped its credibility with
local audiences over the long term for short-term gains in audience ratings for
a particular month -- but masking the long-term decline of audience share
overall."John Lansing:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=175085
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