Why do people love to hate their newspapers?
I mean seriously…give some thought to what is contained in even the thinnest Monday edition of the Erie Times-News: local breaking news from the last 24 hours, couple dozen comic strips, listings of lost and founds and homes and cars for sale, opinion pieces from some of the greatest minds on the planet (George Will for one), updates from around the world, promotion of upcoming local events, well-designed advertising from local and national businesses.
There is still no other comprehensive place for everything about our community than the ink on paper Erie Times-News. Now I’m a big advocate for new media, and exciting ways to access information, but even with 15 years of the World Wide Web under our belt, no one has gotten close to the total coverage that’s found in the paper.
The newspaper is written and directed by flawed humans for sure, and being human they have biases and blind spots. But to say that the paper, as one commenter on P&T tried to say, “is not fit to line the bottom of my bird cage” shows a total lack of understanding what what’s inside each edition, and it’s not constructive or civil.
And that’s what we are all about in this open forum; constructive feedback for our media producers in a context of civility. So push back with your comments below, through e-mail or Twitter.
Embrace the chaos!
October 3rd, 2010 
joel 
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The line dividing national and local media has gotten fuzzy in recent days, with local personalities and events getting national media attention. We’ll talk about that later in the week, but meanwhile you can talk about what you want to on this open forum. And here is a challenge: try not to be contrary for contrarian’s sake. If you have criticism, voice it in a constructive and civil manner.
Leave a comment below, send out an e-mail, or tweet @pressandtower.
Embrace the chaos!