Too good not to share

June 24th, 2009 at 05:00pm Linda Grist Cunningham

“A media guy asks: How valid are Americans gripes about the media….” For all those frothing at the mouth media-haters, this one ought to get you going again. I probably shouldn’t even share it because I know it’ll just bring out the worst in some folks. But, heck, it’s a fun piece.

Here’s the link to a column by Matt Pressman at Vanity Fair. The column’s promo reads: “Matt Pressman assesses the validity of nine complaints on a scale from 1 to 10 — “10 = you’re right, we’re the scum of the earth and we all deserve to lose our jobs” — and finds that (surprise!) some beefs are valid, while others aren’t.”

After six days of watching the Register Star newsroom hustle its coverage of last Friday’s train derailment, I think we do a darn decent job. Add in the launch this week of RockfordWoman.com and the usual run of local, state, nation and world news, and, well, I guess I’d just put it this way: Good thing the folks in the News Tower are in town.

Yeah, you’ll probably say you got some news on all this train stuff from television or radio — or you Webbed it from somewhere. But, rather you choose to believe this or not, the Register Star’s staff — in print and online — fed all those other news sources. Without us, the pickin’s would have been pretty slim.

Thanks to my staff for a job well done.

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