 Posted 5/9/2008 1:00:00 AM
It’s a common conceit in the print medium that newspapers are better than their counterparts in electronic media at reporting the stories that really matter. It’s argued that TV and radio tend to the trite and gossipy, the superficial over the substantive.
Some of that may be a function of having limited time to tell a story versus reams of pages in which to delve into the detail. In any case, the puffed up self-importance of newsprint types seems to have been misguided, with all the major dailies deciding that the Paul Maurice firing warranted priority placement over the horrific disaster in Burma. One story speaks to a catastrophic loss of life, and the other, the unfortunate loss of employment in the toy department of life.
What constitutes news is highly subjective, and it’s fair to say both stories are of interest to the local consumer. But ...
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