And some people say there is no need for hyper-local news!
I beg to differ and enter into evidence this online submission from Bob Owen of "Cramahe Now". He has been pursuing, like a bulldog, the goings on in Colborne over a Farmers' Market. Never mind the fact that here is only one farmer and never mind the efforts of an officious bylaw officer whio seemed determined to take the market out, the twenty year old market was officially reinstated this week. Read about it here, because this is another small, but significant, story that only hyperlocal people tell. Another knock against the MSM.
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Another knock against MSM?
Where are the blog "reports" on Warkorth?
Thanks for that. Who knew Cramahe has someone doing a blog! Thanks to him too, I'll keep an eye on it from now on.
And who needs the travesty that local MSM has become. After perusing their editorial pages recently with their non local SUN media philosophies shoved down my throat, I am more keenly aware of how little importance they have to our community now.
Long live internet based media, it's the only way to go. While I grieve for print media, its time has come and gone. It is pioneers like the Cramahe guy and Ben who will lead us into the new world of immediate local news and views.
Ben
Your argument about local media [MSM] not covering local news events should include the local radio station. Folks we know in Stirling were listening to The Breeze thinking they were listening to a Peterborough station.
Where are the "blog" reports on the Warkworth situation?
Good question not here as I didn't have all night to go and get the facts.
It's probably no coincidence that the guy who wrote the Colborne Market story no longer works for the local MSM!! They used to print his stuff but deemed it obviously unnecessary
Seems to me the role of the internet media will not be to cover "hard" news like the prison story or car accidents or classified ads. The MSM can and will continue to do that, maybe in print for awhile but eventually on the net.
Where we need web based media is to cover both the more subtle stuff they ignore altogether, and the controversial stuff they won't touch.
One of the most vital functions though is the opportunity for readers' interaction with the blog host and each other, and the priceless opportunity to debate and decide issues that way. Lots of times an issue will come up that I haven't thought about before, and through reading and discussing it online, I can evaluate and then develop a position on it.
Besides, it's a lot more fun. Where else can you insult, praise and tease both your friends and enemies equally?
Atta girl Deb. You got good punch. It's fun watching blogs grow up.
I partly envy young people with their instant communications savvy. I used to be in that space for a good number of years, after finishing Loyalist College of Applied Arts & Technology.
You are correct about Northumberland Today becoming like Toronto Sun lite. There are a couple of columnists of Sunmedia that I like to read, but not in the local MSM, which I would prefer to be "local". Sad really.
The past couple weeks before heading up north I was at the library going through microfilm of The Sentinel Star of Foster Russell and Jim Johnstone age. Now they did LOCAL fulltime.
the guy who writes the blog, Bob Owen, still covers some stories for the remains of the local media. He started the blog because the MSM corporation took Colborne's local paper away and that now leaves him as the only source of local news.
Deb, good point about the internet media. There's always been appetite, albeit a limited one,from a marketing point of view, for the kind of fertility afforded in this format. As I newcomer to the site , I tip my hat to Ben and the regular posters I have been reading. It's good and welcome fibre for the diet.
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