What Happens on Canal … Ends Up in the Miami Herald
And what ends up in the Miami Herald ... has some readers incensed!
If a journalist were to write a first-person article chronicling her jewelry store robbery, her editor might be inclined to say, “Um, that sounds kinda illegal, sort of. We shouldn’t run this.” Or at least title the piece “If I Did It.”
But when a reporter recounts her trip through New York’s Canal Street on a quest to score counterfeit bags, her editor knows it’s going to wind up on the paper’s most-emailed list. So: onward, enterprising scribe!
These stories aren’t new – but, news peg: Fashion Week! – and they’re transparently hinged upon our innate desire to go up close with the black market. Readers love these stories for the same reasons we love To Catch a Predator: It’s journalistic porn.
But Elaine Pasekoff’s story, in the Miami Herald last week, where her life intersected at Canal and Mott, has the paper’s ombuds Edward Schumacher-Maltos reaming her out.
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And what ends up in the Miami Herald ... has some readers incensed!
If a journalist were to write a first-person article chronicling her jewelry store robbery, her editor might be inclined to say, “Um, that sounds kinda illegal, sort of. We shouldn’t run this.” Or at least title the piece “If I Did It.”
But when a reporter recounts her trip through New York’s Canal Street on a quest to score counterfeit bags, her editor knows it’s going to wind up on the paper’s most-emailed list. So: onward, enterprising scribe!
These stories aren’t new – but, news peg: Fashion Week! – and they’re transparently hinged upon our innate desire to go up close with the black market. Readers love these stories for the same reasons we love To Catch a Predator: It’s journalistic porn.
But Elaine Pasekoff’s story, in the Miami Herald last week, where her life intersected at Canal and Mott, has the paper’s ombuds Edward Schumacher-Maltos reaming her out.
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