Archive for December 2nd, 2008
City Blog?
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked the question…Can a city run a news blog?
Earlier this month, we told you the Seattle Police Department started a news blog.
Newcastle did one better. The city of about 9,000 people is now home to one of the few blogs in the country run by, well, a city.
“The local newspaper, the ‘Newcastle News,’ prints once a month. So there’s a huge gap,” said Doug Alder, spokesman for the city and author of the month-old blog. “People are hungry for this.”
I’m all in favor of city run blogs. I certainly know that newspapers don’t always get the story right. I’ve read the Blogging Mayor of Round Lake, Bill Gentes for some time.
Readers just need to consider the source … just as anything else they read or hear or see.
I sure wish blogs were around when I was an elected official. I would have had one.