August 22, 2005

What's News?


The Albuquerque Tribune, which works hard to make sense of events, offered a bonus last Thursday – a neat contradiction, possibly coincidental.
Gene Grant, a regular columnist, extolled the just concluded National Poetry Slam finals in Albuquerque but wondered where the local TV stations were.
Elsewhere on the same page, a young producer at Channel 13 news, Jason Gil Bear, wrote a tribute to Peter Jennings. The writer revealed he is serious and idealistic. Oh, and also that he thinks he is in the news business.
The contradiction seems obvious to me.

Posted by Arthur Alpert at August 22, 2005 11:36 AM