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for the reality community here s a snip despite being widely reported in the media that the u s and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in iraq surprisingly more u s adults 50 think that iraq had such weapons when the u s invaded iraq this is an increase from 36 percent in february 2005 we have to figure out what this means it s obviously a problem for us if people don t believe us it s far worse news for the idea of democracy and self government if we can t get more than half the country to agree on the basic facts not what to do about them just what they are there s no hope for civic conversation or shared decision making we ll never be able to solve problems if we can t agree on the vocabulary to describe them i don t have a definitive answer for this but i know for sure it will involve the issues of trust and transparency we talk about all the time we re going to talk about them even more i also suspect that it will end up turning on what people think of how we report the local news they know best we once lost an important source for an investigative story in anchorage because the woman wouldn t go on the record why not her husband had an odd last name that had been consistently misspelled by his local paper not us when he was a high school football player and he didn t trust the press to get things right let s plan to introduce this discussion during our break out session in ft worth next month it will be a brief and busy session with lots to cover but this needs to be a constant and urgent discussion howard weaver p s for those who asked yes i have been on vacaction but there are lots of odd moments available even so this comes during a layover in the san diego airport with a decent wifi connection posted by howard at 10 17 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday july 28 2006 sifting mountains of information malcom gladwell author of blink and innumnerable other smart essays and observations has been widely castigated in the blogosphere for saying something like without the new york times bloggers would have nothing to write about he didn t mean that bloggers never do good or original work but he did mean to suggest that in the realms of public affairs the good ole msm does some important work you can read his worthwile rebuttal to criticisms here here s the money graph in my opinion has the level of self regard in the blogosphere really reached such dizzying heights that it can t acknowledge the work that traditional media does on behalf of the rest of us yes the newspaper business isn t as lucrative as it once was although it s still pretty lucrative and it doesn t seem as exciting and relevant as it once was but newspapers continue to perform an incredibly important function as nformational gatekeepers a function as far as i can tell that grows more important with time not less between them for instance the times and the post have literally hundreds of trained professionals whose only job it is to sift through the mountains of information that come out of the various levels of government and find what is of value and of importance to the rest of us where would we be without them we d be lost howard weaver posted by howard at 9 41 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 26 2006 editor s blog at work we had some good discussion here not long ago about the value of editor blogs versus the tendentious replies and extraneous comments they often evoke all true all worth pondering but while there s plenty of that evident here it s hard not to see the back and forth over ander s blog about their dust up with the minnesota ag as a valueable contribution to that debate in the old days the paper likely would have said nothing in response to the ag s blast or might have issued a short statement and let it go the blog s more robust discussion is going to help the strib i think you can read the post and extensive comments here howard weaver posted by howard at 9 29 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 25 2006 news from back home for newcomers in charlotte we re interested in running something along the lines of a 50 state news summary other mcclatchy papers in the carolinas are also interested in a feature like that we think this would be particularly sticky content for our region s newcomers i know a lot of you also have lots of newcomers the associated press does not move something like that i m told that the ap does assemble the one you see in usatoday but for a special premium i wondered if any of you have discovered a way to produce something like this without the ap s involvement posted by rick thames at 4 04 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 18 2006 what is this s i remember the olden days when the nyt famously did not print profanity yet included some in the transcripts of nixon s secretly recorded meetings somebody protested to abe rosenthal that the paper didn t seem to know its own policy and he said i suppose the policy is that we ll take shit from the president of the united states but nobody else the star tribune will too see anders gyllenhaal s blog note on the decision to use the quote here what did your paper do howard weaver posted by howard at 3 46 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 16 2006 journalism s happy ending william powers media critic at the national journal had a piece in the l a times that s worth taking a look at this was my takeaway if those old media outlets continue to offer strong reliable journalism a craft that s not as easy as it looks they will survive and if they fail others will rise up to replace them the new marketplace punishes errors but it also rewards those who get it right increased scrutiny and skepticism will make the media stronger not weaker you can read it all here howard weaver posted by howard at 8 41 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday july 15 2006 when good blogs go bad i ve been doing a blog for almost a year and now am considering stopping or fundamentally changing my approach why over time i have determined that the blog doesn t do what i d hoped it has not fostered a give and take about coverage with readers including critics of the n o instead it seems to have a mostly silent readership and few commenters all anonymous including a few who simply visit to throw grenades lately the blog has more or less been hijacked by some people mostly out of state commenters who think the duke lacrosse players are innocent and that the n o is to blame for their troubles they don t appear to read our coverage and pay little attention to my responses to their questions accusations one particularly obsessed commenter for instance accuses us of taking our stories off the wire the wire picks up our stories and she sees them elsewhere so thinks we re taking from the wire i m continuing to post on various topics including duke lacrosse coverage from time to time while i think about whether this endeavor is worth continuing some change is in order i don t have time to monitor comments or police the blog some of the comments beyond their attacks on me are reckless with facts and it concerns me that i am playing host to this level of junk please share any suggestions or comments but for god s sake use your name posted by melanie sill at 3 19 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest who cares about local ownership jay rosen at pressthink has an interesting post criticizing a forbes online column about local ownership of newspapers far more interesting to me is the whirlwind of comment that the post generated seems clear this is an issue of real moment for newspaper people you might take a look here howard weaver posted by howard at 11 54 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest evolution revolution hand grenades dean singleton sitting just to my right on a panel discussing the future of news at the ap sports editors convention last month served up a fat pitch i just couldn t resist as he so often has dean illustrated his call for fundamental change with the comment that we have to throw a hand grenade in the middle of the newsroom blow the place up and start over again that gave me the opportunity to come out foursquare against murderous explosions aimed at our colleagues i don t disagree about the imperative of fundamental change i ve been thinking about these issues since 1995 when i worked for gary and had the somewhat grandiose title assistant to the president for new media strategies we knew then and have become ever more urgently convinced that a digitally networked world changes everything maybe dean and others employ metaphors about hand grenades and revolutions simply to make the correct point that change is imperative but i m afraid they actually believe it and that is dangerous and wrong the big mistake is assuming that fundamental change requires wrenching violent revolution everything we know about life on earth tells us evolution is a better bet revolutions generally and hand grenades in particular bring change indiscriminately in rejecting the status quo revolutionaries abandon institutions and disciplines that have evolved successfully after long testing and experimentation these things usually became successful for a reason and even if their time is past the vacuum created by their absence isn t likely to be pretty put it more simply a revolution is far more likely to end up with the reign of terror than an athenian senate debate critics say evolution is too slow and gradual to cope with rapid change not true while most people think of evolution as a sequence of minute changes iterated gradually over an unimaginably long time it doesn t usually work that way as stephen jay gould and others discovered evolution is better understood as a process of punctuated equilibrium where the equilibrium is long periods of stability and the punctuation is relatively rapid change and adaptation when required gould s book wonderful life and especially his discussion of punctuated equilibrium in the burgess shale is one of those books that changed the way i see the world in other words evolutionarily successful organisms naturally carry on until conditions change at which point they adapt pretty quickly to accommodate it think newspapers there wasn t a lot of imperative for newspapers to change when they had 80 reader penetration and 40 profit margins nestled securely in an evolutionary niche protected by geographic monopolies exclusive classified advertising franchises and high barriers against competition we ruled infoworld between ww2 to the internet not now the disruptive technologies born of digital networks have changed the climate and the old order is no more change we must but our change will be more lasting and better constructed if we apply the time tested lessons of evolution and eschew the flashier but less productive posture of revolution as we apply lessons learned from the changing climate to adapt our sturdy battle hardened structures we ll end up with operations that meet changed conditions without abandoning valuable lessons from our past it s hard for a hand grenade to make that kind of distinction i believe we re smart enough and disciplined enough to pull this off and with all you folks on the team i m ready to take on the hand grenade crowd any time any place howard weaver posted by howard at 10 30 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest signals of fundamental change tim porter notes in a first draft post this morning that news companies financial results and subsequent cutbacks are more than indications of capitalism at work in the boardrooms they are also signals of the fundamental shift in how our audiences get and want to get their news for journalists working in newspaper newsrooms consider these financial reports as a series of wake up calls the quarterly tolling of a bell that tolls for thee my friends the digital newspaper future is already here and it s not one most journalists would have invented but if they don t seize control of the change process then someone else someone from the boardroom will do it for them i think he s absolutely right he notes the recent dow jones strategic initiative that begins we live in a digital age that is fundamentally changing how people get their news and information a memo worth reading over here at poynter we ve been saying a lot of this for some time now at mcclatchy and you ll be hearing a lot more in coming weeks it s on the agenda for our first meeting joining editors from new mcclatchy and mcclatchy classic papers in south carolina next week we ll surely talk about it in ft worth when we all gather next month i hope many of you think contribute thoughts about it here in comments and postings we need to be urgently engaged in this please join in howard weaver posted by howard at 7 49 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 11 2006 balance is often insufficent dante chinni an associate at the pew center for excellence in journalism writes here in the christian science monitor about a journalism truism we probably all know but may sometimes neglect balance no matter what they say on fox news is a simpleminded concept that doesn t begin to describe everything we re trying to do i heard molly ivins make the same point once describing what she called the discredited idea that the truth always lies somewhere halfway in between competing points of view well it might but it sure as hell doesn t always we need to bring more to the party than the stenographic and telephonic skills involved in calling the usual suspects and accurately recording their assertions in addition to balance we look for fairness verification documentation and the like we want to add more to a reader s understanding than she would get just listening in on the argument our web publishing platform gives us great new tools to help do this publishing links to original source documents video clips and transcripts of events or even interviews backstory reports form reporters on how they got the story all these things can add depth and credibility all make our journalism much more than simply balanced howard weaver posted by howard at 8 51 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 10 2006 out here in california s central valley we have a pretty good kinship among the three bees and the merced sun star as if to illustrate the point modesto bee editor mark vasché at left helps sun star editor joe kieta line up a shot during a croquet match at a california society of ...