Dead air

Apologies to those of you who tried to tune in to our webcast this morning. We discovered about ten minutes into the meeting that we were getting an error message, and Ryan Pitts later determined that we were unable to connect to the streaming server. The techies are working on it, but it’s anyone’s guess as to when the problem will be fixed.

Finding the readers

Steve Smith had nothing but praise for Sunday’s paper, but expressed some concern about whether it got read on a sunny summer weekend. “My only concern was the amount of time needed to read it on a warm Sunday morning with Hoopfest.” The paradox, or course, is you can’t step things down just because of the weather, particularly when there’s a lot of people in town. “It’s a great showcase for the vistors,” reporter Jim Camden said.

Sunday’s story on police oversight was a high-water mark in local investigative reporting, Smith said. “If this doesn’t generate outrage over the culture of secrecy in our community, I don’t know what’s left to tell folks.” Reporter Karen Dorn Steele said she’s heard from a dozen or so people who want to share their stories, and Smith said we’ve had one cancellation “from somebody who thinks we’re too hard on the police.”