[RP TownTalk] FW: Reporters on the list serve

[James Landry]

Jim Landry
jplandry at hotmail.com
 
 It's all in a day's work: See MusicFromTheFilm.blogspot.com



From: jplandry at hotmail.com
To: thebee32 at aol.com
Subject: RE: [RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:16:06 +0000








I don't have a lot of time to read all the papers that I'd like so subscribe to a feed via Google News. Local Riverdale news is "fed" to me each day along with National, International, Economic and Sport news.  I like reading about the place where I live. I didn't know about the famous Fowl in my "hood" until I read the story on Google. Which all goes to say, I don't really care where the news comes from (us, them, someone else), as long as it is easy to get to.  Whatever you all are doing, it seems to be working, at least for me. Keep it up, please.

Jim Landry
jplandry at hotmail.com
 
 It's all in a day's work: See MusicFromTheFilm.blogspot.com



To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:39:56 -0500
From: thebee32 at aol.com
Subject: [RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve


 So, as a former Gazette reporter who covered your town, I decided to stay out of this conversation. But considering it's been about a week of people complaining about Ms. Izadi's use of TownTalk to find story ideas, I decided to add my 2 cents.



Like many people have said, TownTalk is a public forum and completely searchable via quick Internet search. Check out your former posts, by month, going back to August 2005 here: http://riverdale-park.org/pipermail/towntalk/. Anything that is written on here completely public. If you don't like the idea of anyone with an Internet connection being able to know your thoughts on any given topic, don't post it on the Internet. It's that simple.



I can say I haven't read the rooster article, but I do know how many articles I've written after getting the idea from the list serve - articles that many of you TownTalkers raved about and linked to on this list serve. How else do you think we would know about open houses, international nights, mosaic murals at Riverdale Elementary school, or different events at the Farmers Market or Riversdale, or the Riverdale Railfans? It's rare that we get an e-mail directly asking us to cover something, yet these are all things that I was personally thanked for writing - things I learned of on TownTalk



While I understand some of you might be upset about the one rooster article, think about the numerous articles the Gazette has written over the years to highlight the exciting things that happen in your town before you call for a boycott of a paper whose entire purpose is to feature the things that happen in your community. Think about what you can read in the Gazette about Riverdale Park as opposed to the extremely negative stories that are usually the only ones to get picked up by the bigger papers - such as those two incidents in the department of public works that happened over the past few years that I know we'd all like to forget (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601652_pf.html and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301540_pf.html).



Just my 2 cents, written from the perspective of someone who thoroughly enjoyed covering your town and is saddened by the response I've seen over the past week.



 



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