City Blog?

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.

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