That is unlikely to happen, but I can provide a news operation that offers news, commentary and investigative reporting and an outlet for people who want to comment on the matters that affect them. ![]() I would love to have the opportunity to take on that kind of project in a digital format, with a handful of reporters, columnists who know the community and know how to write about it and a dedication to news as a public service and to the concept of journalists serving in a watchdog capacity. With the consolidation of newspapers, there is almost no place to get one printed. In this current media climate, I would love to see a quality weekly created to tackle this market, but it probably cannot be done any more. While the dearth of quality local journalism has opened the door for a one-man operation like the Turner Report/Inside Joplin to carve out a niche, I would still give anything to have the Joplin Globe, the Neosho Daily News and the Carthage Press return to being newspapers and not media products.Īs some commenters, including those who spoke up for me, pointed out, the Turner Report is not a newspaper. I have loved newspapers for as long as I remember and I want the Joplin Globe to a be a giant that serves the community, offers in-depth coverage no matter who may be offended and throws the cookie-cutter feature stories, columnists who believe their families should be the center of attention and the Rush Limbaugh/Fox News pretensions of Geoff Caldwell.Īs I want the Globe to succeed, so would I like to see newspapers like the Carthage Press and the Neosho Daily News returned to ownership that actually cared about newspapers. At times, it does, but those times have become fewer and fewer as the years have passed. I open the newspaper every Sunday, every day for that matter, hoping that it will offer me a window of what is going on in the Joplin area. While I still read and enjoy Wally Kennedy's page two column and can find some interesting AP stories, there is little to admire about the rest of the publication. I am not so full of myself that I believe they are obsessed with my blog or that it is important to them, but the people at the Globe do pay attention to the Turner Report.įor decades, I read the Globe in the morning and as I have noted before, when I was in high school, I paid Alan Oxendine 15 cents every afternoon for a copy of the Joplin News-Herald.įor a long time, I could count on spending a considerable amount of time each Sunday morning with the Globe. The Globe pays attention to what I am writing about. ![]() When I wrote my farewell to Joplin Globe Publisher Michael Beatty earlier this week, some of my commenters took the opportunity to attack me because I have a deep-seated grudge against the Globe or because the Globe doesn't pay any attention to this little blog.įirst of all, I am not going to be modest.
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