DNews is mo' better!
Oh, my F'in G!
As of this morning, the masquerade is over at the Deseret Morning News.
Utah's oldest newspaper used pretend to be the same as any other rag -- it just happened to be owned by the Mormon Church and print a crap load of stories about general authorities' fireside chats with BYU students.
But this morning, the D-News launched MormonTimes. The four-page insert has all the Mo' news fit to print that anyone -- LDS or otherwise -- could stand.
You might ask: "What's the difference between MormonTimes and the official Church News publication."
Hell if I can tell.
In fact, I really can't tell much difference between MT and the recent DNews under new editor Joe Cannon. For instance, Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) pens a weekly MT column, which is a step down from his recent D-News front-page essay defending Mitt Romney.
Does this mean the DNews will concentrate more on covering worldly events? Cannon, a former GOP Party hack and lobbyist who owes money to his brother Congressman Chris, throws some light on it in a column:
"This new section will not diminish our coverage of LDS-related breaking news" [ in the D-News]."
I may be wrong, but he's risking losing the five non-Mormons who subscribe to the D-News.
3 Comments:
Love your blog, Glen.
Really a nice addition.
You cynical puppy.
In introducing his new section, Mr. Cannon, former chairman of the Utah Republican Party, said his readers “have strongly reaffirmed their interest in a full-service daily newspaper that reports the local, national and international news in an unfiltered, accurate and unbiased manner.”
“Unfiltered, accurate and unbiased.” I applaud Mr. Cannon and his courage to put something like that in print. In adopting that standard he will have to rethink his entire coverage of presidential politics.
In 2007 and 2008 through Tuesday’s vote in New Hampshire, Cannon's staff published more than 70 Page 1 stories that focused exclusively on Mitt Romney's presidential bid. Other leading candidates have merited no more than three stories; the rest nothing at all.
You’d have to be a cynical puppy to draw a connection between ownership of the paper, Cannon’s politics and coverage of the Romney campaign. Right?
Billy, do you think liberal papers never focus on one issue? D News just prints what they think will get them more subscribers. Money talks, and maybe they think this is one way to increase business. Afterall, newspapers are a business.
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