Brian Lambert [“Local News, Global Profits,” June] thinks covering and reporting local news is “easy to do—any writer can read the minutes of a planning commission meeting, or watch a ball game and file a story about it.”
Apparently he has never covered local news. Or covered it conscientiously. I won’t bother pointing out how important local news is to local people. I will, however, take issue with how easy local news is to cover. It takes a great deal of time, talent, and training to cover local government and report what is happening and the implications in a meaningful way.
It goes way beyond reading the minutes of a meeting. Maybe that’s how Lambert would do it, but many professional journalists in the metro area have a far greater sense of responsibility to their readers.
Fred Webber, Medina
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