Today The Examiner published what appeared to be a pretty innocuous story at first glance. It’s that glance that newspapers expect you to take, and that you’re supposed to read briefly, take in superficially perhaps and move right along.
Well that’s what many people probably did in their HARDcopy today but as sure a GOD made little apples the online readers dug in and read deeply.
That is very good to see and with this ‘article’ it seems that the readers did start making connections and asking questions. That’s even better to see!
A great many of the questions are incisive and not the sort of thing that those with by-lines are likely to put to readers – that is up to now perhaps?
It seems that The Examiner is starting to build a stable of, and a following of, ‘Citizen Journalists’. This is a very good thing!
If this continues The Tasmanian Times might well begin to worry about falling readerships and so on.
By the way The Examiner is going, judging by this article, they might even be renewing themselves and gaining ‘New-Kid-On-The-Block’ status – not the dumb and inexperienced kind but the one with special tricks up their sleeves.
What is really interesting is the way the HARDcopy, Online editions and Social Media are beginning to interface and facilitate the testing of an interesting exchange of views.
The Examiner has won, I think that’s the right word, 36 comments on this story today and they’re there forever as a reference. Well done you The Examiner, Trove (the online national digital library) and future researchers will love you.
Ray Norman
Launceston
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