Why is John Blatchford (photo) from Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom (see comment under April 23rd post) reading our blog about local stuff and your friends here in Miami aren't reading it? One of our most faithful readers is from Texas: Thank's Lunkhead for reading.This blog is meant for you and your friends in Miami. We are toying with changing the focus if people in Miami don't give a hoot about the County Commission and other local news that impacts them.
We can write more stuff that John Baltchford will be interested in and less local news for Miamians. What do you want? A broader stroke or stay local? Lobbyists, we already know what you would like.
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15 comments:
Local: Why, because the Miami Herald does a bad job.
It's your blog. Write about what you want to write about.
That said, I'd definitely like to see the blog keep the local emphasis. There's more than enough to write about in South Florida, if not Miami-Dade exclusively.
Nobody is being forced to read. If someone wants broader coverage, they can supplement by reading something else.
I think you should stay with the local content. You'll have more impact then you would tackling the same topics everyone else does on the national and world stage
I am not in South Florida but since you commented on my blog with this link what I am finding here is quite interesting!
Keep posting and keep on keeping on!
You write about what moves you and what makes you think. If you do so, then surely those that think like you or are moved by the same things as you will gravitate towards the same direction.
You take care and blessed be.
Missy
Stay focused on local, but don't ever hesitate to cover something that interests you. And never let a low comment count dissuade you from writing.
Local Please, But as someone else said "It's your blog."
Thou must be joking. Bright people from all over the world will read your blog because they are interested in Miami-Dade County. I get all the info I want or need from the rest of the world, but I am interested in your blog because it concentrates on my area.
I know I would not spend my time here if it was not about where I live.
Seriously now, this is the most insightful thoughtful blog there is on local issues. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this blog is better than the herald. I hope sincerely that if you add to the topics, you keep up the great work on the local issues and outrages.
Definately local, especially with the new round of UDB applications.
Maybe we can take up a collection and put an ad in, gulp, the Herald or Miami New Times to spread the link.
While it is true that the Herald is a crappy paper, even they are under tremendous pressure just look at what is happening to the NYTs:
From the Independent UK
NY Times mutiny grows as directors fail to find backing
By Stephen Foley in New York
Published: 25 April 2007
The scale of the investor rebellion at the New York Times Company swelled yesterday, as 42 per cent refused to support the re-election of directors at the company's annual meeting, piling additional pressure on the newspaper group's controlling family to loosen their grip on the business.
Accounting for the Ochs-Sulzberger family's holdings, the vote meant that more than half of the company's outside shareholders have joined the protest against the ailing share price and the perceived intransigence of the management.
Hassan Elmasry, the Morgan Stanley fund manager who has been leading demands for more cost-conscious and accountable management of the venerable newspaper business, called the vote "a clear mandate for meaningful change".
Mr Elmasry wants the Sulzbergers to cede control, giving up special voting shares that allow them to dominate the board with placemen, even while they own less than a fifth of the company. He also wants Arthur Ochs-Sulzberger - currently both chairman of the company and publisher of The New York Times, its main business - to give up some of his power.
"Several of the company's long-standing institutional shareholders have made specific recommendations on how the company can improve its governance, management, and capital allocation," Morgan Stanley said. "A clear majority of the company's public shareholders are calling on the board to take prompt action."
The minority of directors elected by the ordinary shareholders each received at least 58 per cent of the votes yesterday, well down on the 70 per cent-plus of last year. Since then, the company has plunged into the red, as internet revenues have failed to make up for disappointing revenues at The New York Times and write-offs at The Boston Globe.
We think about this question every day: what is the business model that uses the internet to deliver views and information important to citizens and taxpayers, indeed to democracy, that is unfiltered by the demands of advertisers and revenue models depending on print.
Who can dispute that the "free" market is toxic to news?
A smart society would protect the transparency of newspapers and not hedge funds. That would have to be done through government regulation.
We have thought about it: there is no other way, than to re-regulate media.
Got to change direction and find new tools, because left to itself, the "free" market will kill newspapers.
Hey guys. Altough I do not comment often, I visit almost every day. There's no other blog that provides the in-depth coverage, elephantine memory and connect-the-dots analysis. So definitely local. I consider you nothing less than an essential public service.
You should go to other sites and blogs and advertise it. Maybe some do some website name dropping at local discussion boards/forums (TV and radio stations, newspapers, etc.)
Blogs are not easy to find or uncover.
THANKS for all your support. It sometimes gets frustrating to see a "O" under comments when you spent hours writing a blog.
This is a great blog your opinions are well thought out and you are open to criticism. This is rare in writing, don't change anything, hold their feet, and in some cases heads to the fire. Thanks
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