In today’s Intelligencer Journal – New Era article concerning the shutdown of “TalkBack”, Harold Miller, CEO of the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., explains “It’s been abused. It’s gone. Whether it ever comes back again, we’ll look and see.”
Fair enough. However, In today’s Internet world, ‘Letters to the Editor’ for print can hardly take the place of real time dialogue among a newspaper and its readers. Therefore, NewsLanc fully anticipates that LNP will soon restore “TalkBack” but in a monitored format, controlled by people rather than openly accessible through sophisticated software.
(Those who read the Convention Center series will note LNP’s history of reporting one thing to arouse and influence public opinion, and then suddenly reversing course upon achieving its end.)
NewsLanc will soon introduce “LNP Talk” to allow readers of LancasterOnLine.com and the newspapers to discuss the articles. The same rules will apply to “LNP Talk” as “Letters to the Editor”: Staff will delete unsubstantiated personal attacks and edit out or hyphenate language deemed offensive by current social norms.
The thousands who contribute to and read “TalkBack” will find NewsLanc to be an excellent complement to the Lancaster newspapers, with incisive local commentary, quicker and superior statewide reporting, and links to national and international media for the fuller and more immediate coverage of worldwide affairs.
In the remote possibility that LNP will continue to turn its back on its readership, NewsLanc may engage additional staff, broaden coverage, accept advertisements, and become a true rival to the newspapers. However, for the time being, NewsLanc would prefer to supplement rather than replace.
The Freedom to Speak is alive and well in Lancaster?
LNP is a fish wrapper…..NewsLanc has substance. Re: shutting down of LNP “talk back”…is this a case ofl Big Brother Is Watching YOU” ????
Sounds great! I’ll look for “LNP Talk”