<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SusanV: I don't see anything wrong with it. Now, if they'd run that at the expense of some major news story I might have a different opinion, but I'd be willing to bet that's not the case. You can pooh-pooh it, but Joe Reader eats those pieces up. By and large, people not involved in the news business are fascinated by behind-the-sceners.<hr></blockquote><p>Wary as I am of speaking for Joe Reader, of central Texas, I wonder if you aren't doing him a disservice here. Not sure entirely because I don't know him. I do know that his cousin, of upstate New York, tends to have much broader interests. He might take mild umbrage, in fact, at being portrayed as a newsroom nerd, or, worse, a newsroom nerd wannabe. If your Joe, and his kin, really wanted to read things like Q&As with the woman who lays out page one at the Daily Bugle, wouldn't the whole lot of them be members of TCE, all over the Poynter site etc.?<p>Can you really imagine your Joe knocking back longnecks at the local roadhouse with, say, the Ryan kid who just bored so many of us, even, with his story of getting his first newspaper job?<p>And if your Joe ever got stuck on a hike in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts with Rinker Buck ... well, ain't it comforting to know that he would have had the foresight to bring his side arm along?<p>[ February 22, 2003: Message edited by: jmcg ]<p>[ February 22, 2003: Message edited by: jmcg ]</p>
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