Poor Lex. A couple of years ago, he had what might have been the coolest newspaper job on the planet.
Now he's writing (in his "expert voice" . . . like a victim no less) about how/why the citizen journalism experiment at the N&R crashed and burned. It was all someone else's fault . . . those nebulous powers-that-be . . . all those damned "right people".
But never fear, Roch is going to hire him within the year.
Like I said, poor Lex.
If you can't tell, as someone burned for standing up to her employers on principle - someone who subsequently could not get the time of day from earnest/well-meaning/innovative/world-changing Lex or his evil Editors, I'm not feeling as charitable towards the, "Pity me the poor pitiful reporter" act that Lex's journalist friends in the blogosphere appear to be eating up.
When I left the paper earlier this month, we still had not completed some of the ambitious goals we set for ourselves four years ago. But our Web site was a different and much better place, and the work continues today.
My comment on the story at "CIO Insight" (whatever the hell that is):
I knew there was a reason to keep checking in at Cone's.
Heavy sigh. You don't have to "re-invent the news". You just have to report it.
"Find a way to say yes and to meet people where they are. You want to tell your community's stories. Your community wants its stories told. You're on the same side."
Lex, speaking as someone who came to the blogosphere hanging on John Robinson's every empty promise ("underpromise" is now a good way to characterize it), allow me to tell you that you did not say, "yes", you did not meet me where I was (you did not meet me at all), and you did not tell anyone's story unless it suited the paper's race-baiting/progressive-liberal (whatever) agenda.
You were not on my side.
Reality at the N&R never came close to the rhetoric. And it lost all credibility.
And that is the reason the N&R's little experiment in "citizen journalism" failed so miserably.
Journalists have the power to tell the truth and change lives for the better. There is perhaps no higher calling. What the hell has happened in Greensboro? How did it get so twisted, warped and sick?
Good luck working for Roch.
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Looks like Lex will be going from the skillet to the fire, especially if he expects freedom to speak. LOL
These guys kill me. They really kill me.
They don't deliver on a single promise (it's ALWAYS somebody else's fault). Because of that, they've lost all credibility and the newspaper is on life support. "Good" reporters (at least they tell us they're good - you see, their Editors were so mean we have little real evidence) jump ship.
Now they're "consultants" and "expert voices" . . . and someone is buying into that crap . . . apparently paying to print the drivel.
Then they all converge on Cone's blog and pat one another on the back.
Snake oil. It's just damned snake oil.
Actually what it is is liberalism.They have been so indoctrinated with the liberal mindset that all failure the fault of someone else.
There are no absolutes in their fantasy land existence. When they meet the real world head on and have to face failure or defeat they are totally shocked and can only fall back on the idea that surely it must be the fault of someone else .
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