Tom Clouse’s story “Police investigate infant homicide” on the paper’s website was remarkable here. I’m going to watch Eyenitwit News at 4, 5, and 6 tonight to see how well (and breathlessly with intense urgency) our local television news people cover this “breaking story”. I’m betting that it was on the paper’s website before it aired on television. I’m also betting that Tom’s story has more detail and substance than what we’ll see from the TV reporters’ standups. Radio and television used to be the only “immediate” media, but the Internet has thrust newspapers (or at least the Spokesman-Review) into that category as well. Maybe that immediacy is what will keep newspapers alive and their reporters and editors employed.

Bill McCrory/Whitecaps
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