Comments on: Outsourcing the Daily News

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:05:08 +0000

WBC, I haven’t a clue what happened. No changes on my end. I don’t know where the comment went. It doesn’t seem to be in spam or in the moderation bin. I think every so often there seem to be ghosts in the machine. Sorry about that. If you re-post it with just a slight change it should go through.

About the Obama threads: yeah, local issues seem like a relief to me too.

In truth, I’m afraid I’ll still be somewhat in election fever until Nov. 4, but I’ll try to keep it a bit more balanced.

There’ll be some stuff on state elections next week.

By: WBC

WBC — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:48:19 +0000

My #3 referred to a post that was eaten by your WordPress, Celeste, and when I tried to resubmit it said “already said that” but it still didn’t come up. Not that my words of wisdom were such that the world can’t survive without them (I’m sure reg will jump in to concur) but thought you should know.

By: Jeff Levine

Jeff Levine — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:07:37 +0000

Let me get this straight.

Assume that we are back in 1972 and the Democratic headquarters office in the Watergate had just been broken into. The New Editor sends an email to the offshore local reporters. They dutifully write their story (by referencing what I am not sure), send it in and that’s the end of it. Since Robert Woodward is not there IN THE COURTROOM when the burglars are being arrainged, there is no suspicion aroused in the offshore “reporters”…I wonder if democracy would have been served well?

The United States in the 20th century was known as the “buildingest” society ever in history. We built more stuff, did more things – all for the good of FUTURE generations.

I wonder what future historians will write regarding 21st century United States? The early drafts are not looking good.

By: WBC

WBC — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:21:52 +0000

BTW, seems you’ve enabled comment moderation since I last commented a while back? Maybe I missed the announcement. (Did DQ and his shadows become too much?) With so many Obama threads it’s nice to see you coming back to local issues.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:48:12 +0000

Frank, I stand corrected. I didn’t go back far enough in his bio. He did indeed work for the local paper as a teenager. My bad.

By: Frank keegan

Frank keegan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:11:41 +0000

CORRECTION: Dean Singleton did work as a reporter and editor, beginning in high school. He reportedly was a good one who knew his beats and cranked out lots of copy.