Lincolnite

I agree, T. I was also pleased to see some heavy Darfur coverage in today’s edition, though I haven’t had a chance to read it yet.

Yes - far too often people just critique newspapers when they think they are covering a story incorrectly. A practice that I need to do more is give kudos to papers when they DO cover stories well, or cover them in an interesting angle.

Speaking of the Darfur coverage, I was actually VERY surprised to see this. The LJS almost never covers world issues as the headlining article, and when they do its about the war (which is as much a national issue as it is a global one). I wonder what the rationale was on the Darfur coverage decision.

I really don’t expect the LJS to cover world issues with any prominence, namely because its a daily for a city of 250k, and although there is a Sudanese community here, its not nearly as prominent as in other cities. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t cover world issues. But I usually go to the major papers for global news, who do it much better.

Personally I would prefer more in-depth coverage about Lincoln, and state issues in general. One can go to the NYT etc for world news. I am assuming, of course, that most LJS readers get their information from multiple sources and multiple platforms like I do. That is not the case however, particularly with older folks. I currently have my firefox tabs set for CNN, FOX, the NYT, BBC, Al-Jazeera, the LA Times and the LJS.