I was just looking at the local news headlines of my hometown paper, The La Grande Observer.
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Summit sought to address local jobless rate
Help buy bike rack for The Link
Raffle proceeds aid Halfway clinic
Have orchestra, will travel
New Baby Jesus figure to grace nativity scene
Santa's trains will depart Elgin depot Dec. 13-14
Summit sought to address local jobless rate
Help buy bike rack for The Link
Raffle proceeds aid Halfway clinic
Have orchestra, will travel
New Baby Jesus figure to grace nativity scene
Santa's trains will depart Elgin depot Dec. 13-14
For those avid readers of The New York Times, or those who constantly check CNN.com, this news may seem a bit funny, and of little to no importance. But to the members of my little community, this is the stuff they want to hear about. I've been doing research on community journalism for a big research paper in my english class. A common theme is the idea of bringing the community together. I think from these headlines, we can see that my newspaper in a way is trying to do that.
Is this what "they" mean by hyper-localization talked about in "NewsWar" (wait is that what that documentary was called?)? Anyway, it is just interesting to go back and forth between national papers and community papers. Do you guys take stuff like fundraising for a bike rack seriously? Just some random thoughts on community journalism.....
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hehe. this was the kind of thing that my family always made fun of. we thought they were filler stories, this just kind of reminds me of those stories on the local news where you can kind of tell they ran out of news and just decided to tell the story about Janice Jones's dog, who ran away yesterday, but came back today. i don't know, i guess it's a good thing to tell about the fundraiser for the bike rack, but maybe it shouldn't be the head story?
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