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Newspapers: relying on deep thoughts as much as Deep Throat?
By Jennifer 8. Lee | June 19, 2007
David Folkenflik has an NPR piece today about media depending on “conceptual scoops” — which is akin to what I call “stories that people talk about” (aka the most-emailed stories, aka, the secret weapon that newspapers will (hopefully) ultimately wield in a hyperconnected, hypermemed, hyperblogged digital media age). He interviews Phil Bennett, managing editor of The Washington, Post, who talks about the fantastic series of stories that Charlie Savage did on George Bush’s expansion of executive power through signing statements as a subtle substitution to line-item vetoing. And he also interviews Michael Miller, page one editor of The Wall Street Journal, about the options backdating series. Both those won Pulitzers this year. (Charlie, incidentally, was in my freshman writing class, so I’m particularly proud of him. Yay!). And tucked in at the end is a transition — “but they don’t all have to be that serious” — to an interview about my man date story (the 2005 Sunday Story story that seems to have eternal life). Some journalists take down CEOs and presidents. Others undermine American men’s sense of masculinity (sigh).
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