tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post8502557599817060155..comments2024-03-28T03:12:12.079-05:00Comments on Northern Valley Beacon: South Dakota and the absence of pressDavid Newquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937837001343753140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-9690716011410669892018-06-28T15:21:57.739-05:002018-06-28T15:21:57.739-05:00I was reading your post and have come to the concl...I was reading your post and have come to the conclusion that the only news that most of the South Dakota public gets is from their weekly readers. I call them that as they are published each week and have glowing reports from NOem, Thune and Rounds in them. Sometimes there is a blurb from Daugaard but the three amigos are a steady blathering of how great they are doing and how wonderful the times are. They also blame any shortcomings on Democrats and the lie of obstruction. <br /><br />The weekly readers are read many times over and passed along in the coffee shops and other places that farmers and ranchers sit around and bitch about Indians, liberals and how badly misunderstood they are. Of course, it has never dawned on them the the reason they are in the position they find themselves in, is because they read the propaganda and swallow it as truth.jerrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-90289960768198085812018-06-28T12:02:35.083-05:002018-06-28T12:02:35.083-05:00Mr. Mercer,
David Newquist's post about old s...Mr. Mercer, <br />David Newquist's post about old school journalism is validated by your statement (paraphrased), "I was inside the hall and didn't know there was news going on outside." A newsman with no support staff? Not even an intern around to go outside, take a break and have a smoke? Important and interesting things are going unreported while "news on the cheap" has taken over. Porter Lansinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03462946359586390472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-34549457236178312602018-06-27T08:05:33.769-05:002018-06-27T08:05:33.769-05:00Bob,
I was aware of your report of the expulsion o...Bob,<br />I was aware of your report of the expulsion on the blog because that is how I knew about it. My reference is in response to questions about why it was not mentioned in the report which appeared in the newspapers. <br /><br /> I am not trying to be critical of your reporting. In fact, your coverage of EB-5 and Gear Up are high marks in South Dakota journalism, and your efforts to crack open the closed records on Benda are the equal of Woodward's and Bernstein's efforts on Watergate. My point is that the state has no reporting that keeps a constant focus on politics and its players in the state. The war on the media which in the state broke out during the Daschle-Thune campaign has made the news business very timid, and that has more to do with how editors assess their audience.<br /><br />Another bit of reporting you have brought light is the publication of Anna Madsen's honors thesis on Gear Up. The general public needs to know about this. You are the main conduit in the state for such news,David Newquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04937837001343753140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-39837827338753246802018-06-27T03:47:36.028-05:002018-06-27T03:47:36.028-05:00David,
I reported about the expulsions Monday mor...David,<br /><br />I reported about the expulsions Monday morning on my blog (www.my605.com/pierrereview). Your post is dated Tuesday.<br /><br />As to missing the protest outside the Republican convention, I was inside the convention hall and didn't know there was a protest until reading your post. To my knowledge, none of the other reporters inside the convention knew about the protest.<br /><br />I'm willing to take whatever points you want to make about the four years I spent as press secretary for Gov. Bill Janklow. I helped improve his news-media relations. I was a newspaper reporter before that, and I have been a newspaper reporter again since January 2003.<br /><br />As for the coverage of Jason Ravnsborg, it was what it was, just as my coverage of Randy Seiler was what it was.<br /><br />I have told people for many years that I purposely don't vote. That held true while I was Janklow's press secretary too. I can't speak for all of them, but I know there are many reporters and editors who do vote or at least are registered to vote.<br /><br />And, because you left the field as a reporter long ago, you probably didn't realize my employment situation changed some years ago. I again work for the Aberdeen American News. AAN holds the contracts with the other daily newspapers I proudly serve. They are the four other original members in Watertown, Mitchell, Pierre and Spearfish. Since returning to the Aberdeen American News, we also gained the daily newspapers in Rapid City and Yankton.<br /><br />While you write critically about me, I would like to remind your readers about my extensive coverage of EB-5 and GEAR UP, as well as many, many other important news stories through the three-plus decades I've spent reporting news in South Dakota.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18130209975287356761noreply@blogger.com