Roch 101 directs me to an interesting debate between N&R John Robinson and commenter ‘Overtaxed,’ who reacts to Robinson’s post on Guilford County government’s lack of cooperation regarding possible cuts at DSS.
‘Overtaxed’ complains he couldn’t find a story on the N&R’s Web site about the federal lawsuit filed by former GPD officers Tom Fox and Scott Sanders against the City of Greensboro. The story was a sidebar way inside the N&R print edition, while it was front page above the fold in the Rhino.
‘Overtaxed’ tells Robinson he doesn’t subscribe to the print edition, but he reads the Web site, to which Robinson replies “(l)et’s just say you get what you pay for, both from our web site and from the Rhino.”
That’s a pretty incredible statement isn’t it, considering the old idiom states that something of very low price is usually not of very good quality. Seems to me that since readers are getting their news from the Web, the N&R would want to put out a quality product.
Making comparisons to the Rhino is dangerous, too, considering the fact that I learn more about local government reading the Rhino for nothing than I ever have paying for the N&R.
