Comments on: Dog Bites Man http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/06/dog-bites-man/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:26:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: emeryjay http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/06/dog-bites-man/#comment-85104 emeryjay Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:15:45 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/06/dog-bites-man/#comment-85104 The Sentinel invested some pretty good shoe leather in uncovering the story. They broke the story on the Web. So what? For a newspaper to break a story on the Web is still novel. Apparently parts of the news business on the Web is still novel -- especially the part aobut newspapers making money online. One of the first instances was one of the big Texas papers breaking the story about Timothy McVeigh's confession. In a news conference at an online newspaper convention in Seattle, the ME conceded that the paper broke it on the Web to avoid being scooped on their own story by a rival. Never the less, the paper had it first -- but on the Web. When asked by CNN about scooping themselves, the editor said: "We did not scoop ourselves. The last time I checked we were in the same business as CNN. It looks like we scooped CNN." The Sentinel invested some pretty good shoe leather in uncovering the story. They broke the story on the Web. So what? For a newspaper to break a story on the Web is still novel. Apparently parts of the news business on the Web is still novel — especially the part aobut newspapers making money online.

One of the first instances was one of the big Texas papers breaking the story about Timothy McVeigh’s confession. In a news conference at an online newspaper convention in Seattle, the ME conceded that the paper broke it on the Web to avoid being scooped on their own story by a rival.

Never the less, the paper had it first — but on the Web.

When asked by CNN about scooping themselves, the editor said:

“We did not scoop ourselves. The last time I checked we were in the same business as CNN. It looks like we scooped CNN.”

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