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stories like this take lots of time -- years if it's one person; fewer months but as many person hours if it's a team
it's not whether blog or newspapers can do this best: it's who has the resources
a brokeass newspaper will no more produce coverage this deep than a blogger sitting at starbux with enough resources to get another latte
time is money, money is time, and the time and money required to support magisterial work like this are in short supply everywhere now -- print, broadcast and blogs alike
the business model pro publica is putting together is an interesting one
i am in favor of any model that puts out work like this, as soon as possible and as much as possible
the value of this piece in particular is enormous
-- real accountability for the failed federal presence, and markers for how to do it right
-- identifying publicly a gap in healthcare emergency services thinking that put the staff as much at risk as the patients: medical academics and planners take note
08/30/09
We're so fuckity-fucked if mainstream media orgs cannot fund such stories. Deeply and thoroughly fucked.
08/30/09
08/30/09
W.
Bush --- never forget.
08/30/09
Blaming GWB for all of the evils of the world is awfully simplistic. Yes, his agencies did not respond quickly enough to provide relief. I seriously doubt that GWB doing a fly over would have positively impacted the situation.
As to the cause, there are a lot of state, local, and federal officials to blame.
08/30/09
As a matter of fact, we know for certain that GWB doing a flyover would in no way help the situation (other than to help usher him and his friends from power).
08/30/09
08/30/09
This is my experience, but to be the ultimate caregiver in these condition for such ill folks must have been horrific. Not to mention the clusterf*ck of government bureaucracy at the time, who can forget dubya peering out his Airforce 1 window or his mama quiping to the Houston refugees "The're better off now" or some such nonsense.
Knowing what I know, had I been in that hospital, I would have begged to be put down.
08/30/09
You cannot kill people because you do not feel like carrying them down the stairs or waiting around for someone else to do it, no matter how tired you are or how long the lights have been out and the toilets stopped up.
And the people did not "beg to be put down."
Read the story.
08/31/09
08/30/09
Or the health care story.
This article, along with Sam Donaldson's grilling of Liz Cheney on ABC today, give me some hope for the future of journalism. (though Sam is going to be eligible for one of those death panels soon, so I guess it's Sheri Fink to save the profession.)
08/30/09
also:
-- healthcare
-- war
-- the safety net
08/31/09
By no means am I saying such things are the answer, but if anyone is interested in donating toward these kinds of stories, a mechanism and model does exist.
08/30/09
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08/30/09
My name is snugbug and I am an accomplished journalist with (this will undoubtedly gladden your heat) an M.A. in print journalism. I have edited, written and fact-checked in the past for many a print publication with a national circulation, which renders me qualified to point out that "groundbreaking" is spelled as such--not "ground breaking."
I exclusively live my life on three multimedia interactive platforms--Twitter, Facebook and Icanhazcheeseburger, which should render me a perfect candidate for the position at hand.
Thank you for your consideration!
I am eagerly looking forward to hearing back from you at your urgentmost convenience.
Until then, my sincerest regards.
PS: Learn to spell, dorks.
08/16/09
08/16/09
Ah, the "air" was owned by ABC. Spike.
And ever since, whenever a mogul made a choice to protect his balance sheet, the shrugged response to journalism purists who objected became, "Who remembers the Disney predators?"
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08/15/09
oh the irony...
08/16/09
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08/16/09
Also? I'm not sure where the meme about journalism ethics began but it's a wonderful little myth that newspapers have done a remarkable job of trying to perpetuate.
It's a lie. Newspapers are a semi-efficient medium to get eyes in front of their advertisers. As it becomes less efficient (as it has in the past), the newspapers have a tough time at it.
Such is the history of media.
08/15/09