No news on Obama's win

Then why not get a man-on-the street reaction about Obama winning or something? Localizing a presidential election shouldn't be that difficult.

 

I'd think, everywhere, there's at least an interest in seeing how the county/state numbers come out in the presidential election. I'm assuming local results are covered, and its the same poor, sleepless peons at the county counting all the votes. Anyone anywhere can hack out a localized piece on deadline.

 

Yeah, but first you have to accept that your guy got beat.

 

Where do you draw the line, especially when school board race got a lot of attention? How far should we localize stories when we didn't cover the campaign? In my paper's situation, when we have run national or state stuff, readers get mad since they subscribe to the big city paper too and don't pay for my paper just to get duplicate coverage.

 

In 1980 I had just started at my first paper, in Texas.

It was a PM not too far from Houston.

When Lennon was murdered, the story went inside. One redneck made that call. He was a fucking idiot that day. Still is, no doubt.

This is so much worse.

 

Well, I guess you could localize it and go see what your town's folks think about the election results (assuming you are an afternoon).

If you are an AM and it would be tough to localize, well, I still think you go with the huge national news, because it is huge news. I'm guessing not all of your readers get the big city daily.

 

A paper I know outside of Chicago just teased Obama's election at the top of the page ... No story on the front page, no big picture.

I don't think this was about race. It was about "local, local, local" ... except I bet it would be nice to get a record day for rack sales or the biggest day in decades.

I understand the push for local, but you have to know when to bend and break the rules. This was one of those times. At the very least, have a localized story as others have suggested.

The Terrell Tribune and this paper made really bad business (and suspect editorial) decisions, plain and simple, at a time when papers need money desperately.

 

Twice-weekly with an 11 a.m. deadline. Reporters paginate. Local races weren't in until midnight. I have to apologize by saying we included the result as part of a graphic on the front.

 

There's a difference between daily and weekly obviously. I should have mentioned that earlier ... The paper outside of Chicago is a daily. That's no excuse.

 

Old SNL skit. Smalltown paper editorial board meeting the day after Pearl Harbor is attacked. "It's rainin' bombs in Pearl Harbor!"

 

Here's another one. A paper in Oklahoma had nothing as well.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/10/dnt.ok.no.obama.newspaper.kjrh

 

at least the oklahoma publisher didn't hide and issue a pansy-ass statement