A couple of posts back, I talked about the opportunity that some Texas publishers missed when they too-narrowly defined what "local coverage" really means.
The post was prompted when Bud Kennedy used the Texas Press Association's list serve to ask a question about reaction members of the community had to presidential election coverage, or lack of it.
I posted my blog entry and sent it to Bud via email, off-list. Unfortunately, it wasn't really "off-list." It was sent to all those 300-some-odd publishers and editors who frequent TPA's editorial list serve. Oops.
I hadn't intended to spark any controversy. Really.
One publisher — a good friend of mine — chided me for posting my blog on the list serve and I accepted it because she was right.
Others allowed as how I might have a point and one even made my argument better than I did.
Others, of course, stuck to their guns and defended Terrell's right to ignore the national elections — or not — the way they saw fit.
Then there was the publisher who cautioned Kennedy against paying much attention to me because I was "full of frijoles." This particular publisher went on to note that, had he even deigned to publish a story about the presidential election, it "probably would have said First socialist/Marist elected president. Instead those comments were made in our editorial on Page 4."
Wow. That's an enlightened oped page I'm glad I missed.
The storm raged for a day or two, then faded away. Bud wrote his column and even quoted me, though he identified my column by the URL rather than the name. A link to the column is here.
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