tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32402245.post1099061342029881602..comments2023-09-25T07:44:17.471-04:00Comments on The Editorialiste: When NYT Fails To Give Credit...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684537013120858057noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32402245.post-82457391437382722792008-10-12T17:51:00.000-04:002008-10-12T17:51:00.000-04:00Hi, I have been following your blog for a while no...Hi, <BR/><BR/>I have been following your blog for a while now and thought this was an interesting issue. <BR/><BR/>First of all: I can see where you're coming from! It must be frustrating to see the hard work and much of the excitement you put into YOUR story only later be be picked up by one of t-h-e biggest papers of the country and - voila- after doing their own share of work on it - the story is theirs.<BR/> <BR/>However, having worked for a large newspaper based in a foreign country, I know firsthand that that's exactly how it often works. <BR/><BR/>Local media often enough contribute the origal idea for a particluar story. They tend to raise a question worth following up on, and very simply point out the different aspects of every day life that one person alone simply cannot oversee. <BR/><BR/>If we always credited each and every source for our original story idea---- it would be confusing to say the least. I mean, where do you then draw the line?? A TV news story on a prisoner in Alabama that evolves into a profile in a news magazine with a larger scope---, a local story on an Icon restaurant in New York that closes after a long successful run, that makes it into German papers? <BR/><BR/>After all, these pieces of information are out there already. It depends on who finds them first and manages to sell it to a big enough audience.... and gets the credit that he/she (more or less) deserves.<BR/><BR/>Allbest! FMGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32402245.post-88304741212790317742008-10-10T19:49:00.000-04:002008-10-10T19:49:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Travis Mason-Bushmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826114602598230821noreply@blogger.com