All That Is Available - a Response to Christeen Florence's Blog Entry, "Been There, Read That"

"Been There, Read That"  is the title of an article that can be found on Christeen Florence's blog. In her blog entry she talks about how as she perused through local news websites she realized that they all contained the same story on their front pages. She understood that this was because the story was breaking news, but feels that they could have given different approaches. I both agree and disagree with her take on this. Occasionally news organizations can definitely dig a little deeper and provide the public with new and other information, they can provide their information in a different way, or they can provide different sources or witnesses. 

However, sometimes you literally cannot tell a story differently because of a limited number of sources, leads, and information. Sometimes when a news story is really fresh the news organization simply wants to make the basic structure of the story available to the public because that is all that is currently available to them. The news organization will wait to tell their story fully until they have received as many details as possible. Christeen's take on the ways in which local news organizations seems to me mostly accurate and very interesting. Click here for a link to Christeen Florence's full article.

-Guinn