What you missed in today's DMN
Day two, and already breaking format -- hard to pick on DMN headlines today, because there are so few local ones. Instead, a quick analysis of how resources were deployed yesterday to produce today's old news (wire/syndicated stories not counted; sports section not analyzed):
| NY bylines (DMN-ers in NYC) | 12 |
| Other non-local bylines | 12 |
| Total non-local story bylines | 24 |
| Local story bylines | 18 |
Also note that while we have a report from the "Europe bureau," the Texas news comes from the wire. Not one of the non-local stories delivers anything substantive that can't be gotten elsewhere.
Maybe it's the Dall Morning News, or just the Llas Morning News.
Just like the citizen who gripes that the cop could have been stopping the robbery at the nice Greek restaurant on Main Street if he hadn't been busy writing a jaywalking ticket to my employee walking to work, we think that today's local media outlet should expend 95% of its resources on local news. Sure, folks want to know what's happening in the world, but they can usually get that from the wire. Meantime, who's covering the world that most folks see every day?
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