When X is played higher than Y
By adamg - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 11:48am.
Paula wonders why the Globe played an "iffy" jailhouse confession above the Mumbai attacks the other day.
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Because newspapers are way too slow
For an in-progress world or national news story, newspapers are way too slow.
Most newspaper readers also have cable news and the internet. They already know what's in the newspaper story -it's old news. This seems obvious.
The future of local newspapers is in local journalism - I'm glad the Globe is covering stories like the murder of Giovanni Gonzalez more prominently now. It's a lot better than trying to be portentous and pretentious on world and national news stories. I can get the Mumbai story in many ways now, including watching Indian TV and reading Indian newspapers on-line. Tell me about what's happening here.
Good point
I wondered about the placement as well for a moment, but then I realized that Mumbai would not be a totally new story to most Globe readers, while the confession was truly breaking news - nobody at all knew about it except the reporter and her editors (whether it's actually true is another story).
In addition to "nobody has
In addition to "nobody has heard this elsewhere, so it's a higher priority to readers," I suppose there might also be "if you got it (an exclusive), flaunt it."
Exclusive
Many of the Globe's editorial decisions baffle me, but this one's an easy call -- they got the exclusive on a major local story and put it up front, where it belonged.
Link to story?
For those of us who didn't see the paper edition or are out of town ... can someone link to the story you're talking about?
Link
Globe EXCLUSIVE: Father confesses to killing his 5-year-old son.