Smith: I Wasn’t Radical Enough

Back in a newsroom today, I’d fight even harder against the entrenched interests that continue to insist that the big national and international stories of today belong on Page 1 tomorrow “as a matter of record.” And I’d fight harder to kill the stenographic meeting stories and the press release crap that makes up too much of what passes for local news in too many papers. As radical as I have been as an editor, I have not been radical enough. If our newspapers can’t be timely, they should at least be interesting/ Steve Smith , Still A Newspaperman. More here .

Question: What stories would you emphasize, if you were editor of The Spokesman-Review?