Then on election day I get my newspaper about 5:30 p.m.
with the lead story headed "Election 97" when it was almost over.
There still was nothing about candidates in Moscow or Pullman. And
only about two and one-half hours till the polls close. No wonder we
had such a terrible turnout. Then after it's all over, we can't tell
by the Daily News that Moscow even had an election.
Maybe those of us who have an Internet connection should save $10
plus a month and occasionally log into the Daily News Web page to see
if it has something that might be of interest to its readers. We could pick up
Vera White's "Ink" for instance, which is the becoming the liveliest
feature offered and actually deals with local people and what they are
and are not saying and doing. Keep it up, Vera.
P.S. Since reading a couple of other comments on the server, I'll add a few of my
own. An election is a running story. You don't run something only
once. You need to keep your readers alert by developing new angles
as things progress. On the day before the election, you can't expect
your readers to remember something they may have read days or weeks
before. Maybe the election wouldn't have been such a dud if the Daily
News had been fulfilling its civic responsibility by helping to
create interest both in the news and its editorial page. But that's
the way we used to do things. Apparently this is the new age.