Image via WikipediaHere's an exchange with a reader in response to my previous post, Challenge to Mother Hen Deirdre?
- I'm with the previous poster, the Record nailed it with the nanny story. Listen, Victor, there's three topics that sell papers: sex, crime and sports. The Record should do more of that, not less.
- June 9, 2010 10:49 PM
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- I don't have a problem with the volume of coverage, except when it excludes legitimate news, but its placement on A-1 often is questionable. I know what sells papers, of course, but the editors are doing a disservice to readers in Hackensack and other towns by ignoring their concerns day after day. That's indefensible. The point I was trying to make with the nanny trial is that by covering it so well and putting it on the front of L-1, we convicted this woman, despite the jury verdict. The only reason I can see for the story making Page 1 is to try to rehabilitate the poor woman's image. The editors sacrificed this woman on the altar of selling papers. Even in the youth baseball series, you can see the corrosive influence of glorifying sports and the business of sports on the front page.
- June 10, 2010 10:30 AM
What do you think?