Sat
Sep 8 2007
08:39 am
By: R. Neal
The Knoxville News Sentinel recently issued a call for bloggers to help cover the upcoming KNS v. Knox County Commission trial. The reasoning was that because the newspaper is the plaintiff, they needed independent coverage.
Jack McElroy announced on his blog that three bloggers have been selected. They are Rich Hailey, David Oatney, and Russ McBee. From McElroy's description, it sounds as though they will mostly be covering the coverage, not necessarily the trial itself (maybe Russ can elaborate on how that will work).
Anyway, its an interesting experiment in citizen journalism. I'm not sure a newspaper has ever done anything like this before. Once again, the KNS is way out front in working with the the local blogger community.
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I think this is absolutely
I think this is absolutely great.
I wonder why they picked
I wonder why they picked some guy from White Pine (Oatney)?
Swapping a lack of knowledge of the local landscape for lack of bias, maybe?
It should be covered by the
It should be covered by the folks who've been covering county politics and this entire mess all along.
well, not when they'll all be subpoenaed as witnesses. Quite a statement, isn't it? We don't impartiality in county government or in local media.
Good pt; hadn't thought of
Good pt; hadn't thought of that. Still, I don't look forward to Satterfield's breathless true crime style of coverage.
Way to go KNS!
Be looking forward to the blogs.
Wingin' it
Randy, I'm not sure how this will work either, but I intend to give it my best shot. A week or so ago, Michael Silence posted a request from Jack McElroy to enlist some local bloggers to cover the coverage:
I volunteered via email. Michael's reply was brief and non-specific, which I think was sort of the point. In the interest of full disclosure, I feel comfortable quoting that email here. He said:
And that was pretty much the extent of it.
I'm certain there will be a tsunami of local commentary on the trial regardless, so in that sense, McElroy's call for freelance ombudsmen seems a little superfluous. However, I think the larger point is the "interesting experiment," as you put it, of newspapers reaching out to bloggers for critique.
That's got to be a first.
This trial will drag on for weeks, I'm sure. I wish I could take the time off from work to sit in the courtroom live-blogging it, but that's just not a realistic option for me. So, I suppose that means my job is to examine the KNS coverage of the trial for obvious bias and to collate it with coverage and commentary from other sources. The local TV stations, the Shopper, MetroPulse, and local bloggers will undoubtedly have tons to say on the matter, so I'm sure I'll have lots to compare against Jamie Satterfield's reportage.
I haven't spoken to David or Rich about it, so I don't know what approach they plan to take.
Why the heck is Jamie
Why the heck is Jamie Satterfied covering this trial? It's not a criminal case.
It should be covered by the folks who've been covering county politics and this entire mess all along.
I wondered about that too.
I wondered about that too.
Why the heck is Jamie
From what I understand from the article, Jamie is from Sevier County and for that reason she would not have any bias.
coverage
Interesting. It would be good if someone other than Jamie could sit through the whole thing. But then my guess is that Jamie won't even sit through every moment.
Jamie's coverage is ok, but sometimes I think she works too damned hard to get those cutesy leads. And sometimes, I just don't think they are appropriate.
I think getting objective coverage, even with this blogger angle, is going to be very tough, maybe impossible, becuase so many people have formed opinions about both the KNS and the commission. My guess is that sumliminal (sp) opinions will come out in all kinds of strange ways.
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...Satterfield's breathless
Is anyone else "over" JS's over-the-top smarmy-tainment? Please, ma'am, just the facts. Leave the snarkiness to us experts. That's what anonymous blog comments are for.