Up-Date: More About – About Berkeley Reporter

by Steed Dropout
Sept. 4, 2013
Berkeley, Ca

NO ONE EVER READS AN “ABOUT”

Articles on the workings of media are often crowded out by hard news.

It’s hard enough to regularly read anything — unless it bleeds.

Read this as trivia or hearsay — my kind of say.

WOW YOUR FRIENDS WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING AT BERKELEY’S ALTERNATIVE VOICE, AND MAJOR SOURCE OF BERKELEY DISH

Berkeley Reporter will have more time to dish now that he spends most of his time photographing for a local publication, and developing his series, South Side Tales — a casserole dish — for Berkeley Times.

My career as a reporter, such as it was, is in shambles now that the Berkeley Daily Planet [ted friedman] has admitted it is “no longer a newspaper.” The Planet recently cancelled deadlines, the mainstay of “when” in who, what, where, when — the pied piper of journalism.

My photo-journalism continues, but not my reportage.

Deadlines were already slack at Berkeley Daily Planet (I had a two day lead-time with all but the fast-breaking story), as my Planet editor and I conspired to flout rules we considered foolish while observing rules we admired.

Only this week, something I put a great deal of reporting into ran on the Planet as “Public Comment.” It was the definitive background piece on Berkeley’s post-office protest.

I was lucky to get it published there, especially with the paragraph revealing my cynicism and other lapses.

I’ll figure out how to contribute to the new Planet; maybe public comments.

Berkeley Reporter contributes short, but regular, news-like squibs on Berkeley, Ca. Patch, a community bulletin board along with cat and dog announcements.

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