We had an interesting discussion this morning on Gov. Gregoire's visit to Spokane yesterday. It was a campaign stop during which she delivered what will be her opening stump speech to a crowd of about 200. We had previewed the appearance and the speech at the top of the Northwest section on Tuesday. Jim Camden attended yesterday's event. He captured some audio for our radio broadcasts. And he wrote an item for his political blog, Spin Control. But he didn't write anything for print and no one asked him to do that. This morning, when it came up, my first, reflexive reaction was "how did we miss that?" But as we discussed it, I quickly came to the conclusion there was no reason to write a story for the print paper/Editor Steve Smith, News Is A Conversation. More here and: Spin Control 2.0 coverage here

SR Blog Roundup
*Birth/Virginia de Leon, Parents Council
*Therapy on horse back/Video Journal
*Flickr lets pro members add video/Tom Sowa, TXT
*Gregoire, horses on video, West Plains Voice debut/Thuy Nguyen, Daily Briefing
*Keeping mum for LGBT teens/Jill Wagner, Out on the Town
*What do we do now without college hoops?/Gary Graham, News Diary

Question: Did we make the right call? Does the visit of a governor or other dignitary to your town automatically mean that it should be in the paper? Or is it enough to report the event on the air and online as the SR can now do?

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