May 7, 2008

Live-Blogging the Budget Cuts

WSMV reporter Cara Kumari live-blogs the governor's budget cuts announcement, beating all other media in bringing the details to the public. That's two days in a row that broadcast bloggers have beaten the ink-stained wretches. Blogging is the most agile news reporting medium ever invented.

Exit question: Why do TV bloggers often out-perform newspaper bloggers? Some thoughts at MeshMediaStrategies.com...

Update: Mike seems to think I'm showing contempt for print reporters by referring to them as "ink-stained wretches." What he must not know is that the phrase "ink-stained wretches" is common and affectionate term for print journalists. No less a political journalist than the great Jules Witcover even titled his 16th book, a memoir, The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat

Current and former ink-stained wretches like myself don't mind the term at all.

Also, if Mike had read the piece at MeshMediaStrategies.com, he would have learned that I believe it is the ink-stained wretches, and the media outlets that employ them, who possess the long-term advantage in the new-media era, in part because they are so good at what they do.