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17

Update: PD publishes LTR re: what’s Bill Harris done for women in politics

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Original post on this topic.

Link to the letter online at the cleveland.com/plaindealer (it’s also in the print version today)

Looks like the only edits were the elimination of the parens around the date.

Now – the next step, one might expect, would be either a news item about what Ohio Senate President Bill Harris is actually doing or has tried, or an editorial saying he’s tried and it’s not working and recommendations for what he should be doing now.

At least, that’s what, as a reader, I’d want to see in the paper now.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:00 pm November 17th, 2007 in Media, Statehouse, Women | 2 Comments 

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17

Lauren Rich Fine w/Plain Dealer’s Goldberg, Egger in interview on HuffPo

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Wow. Well, where do I begin?

Disclaimer: As Wide Open moves into its fourth week of a hiatus, I should reveal that, as I noted to Tish Grier yesterday, the remains of my anger and sadness about the effort’s demise exist at a very personal level and a very objective “what’s it mean” level. This post is an example of how those feelings I have, at both levels, affect how I interpret what others say that might have to do with the Wide Open experiment. I make no apologies for my feelings to the extent that they reflect how deeply committed I was for so long. That Plain Dealer online editor Jean Dubail or others can’t or don’t write about it from that perspective, I guess I’m unique and using my blogging voice as therapy.

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First, I think I saw Ms. Fine at Caribou Coffee within the last couple of weeks and I really wished that she wasn’t so engaged in her meeting because I’ve wanted to e-mail her for more than 18 months and I think I’ve even started a couple but just never hit “send” and then there she was, I think, but it was clearly not an opportune time, though I did stare a bit and that was bad. If she noticed, I apologize – it was not one of my best moments of good decorum.

(If you don’t know who Fine is, I’d refer you back to the lengthy PD profile of her from 2006 but it’s not online anymore. The focus of the article was on people moving back to Cleveland, happily, or, at least, finding happiness once they’re back. Her bio at HuffPo is here.)

Now, I was doing my daily Google blog search on “‘plain dealer’ blog” and discovered this Huffington Post item titled, “Newspapers Matter,” written by Fine. She and her husband hosted a small event (50 people limit) in their home last Friday, 11/9 which involved a discussion of the newspaper business. You can read more about that event here, but the HuffPo piece is a by-product of the evening.

Lucky for me I was in Alabama at a bar mitzvah on 11/9, or I would have been tempted to try and attend but, I know, you’re laughing (plus, I didn’t know about the event – I’m not a film society member, but maybe I should be? Or, I could just join everything Egger and Goldberg have joined? I know I overlap many entities and most likely people with Fine – one of my best friends from high school went to Tufts around the time she was there, then there’s her involvement with Cleveland Jewish News, Poynter, bla bla bla – okay – sorry – getting silly here).

I’m snickering a little myself too – but seriously, I would have loved to attend and I would have been very well behaved! I really just want a conversation, but it’s felt all so one-sided when I’ve tried to broach the larger implications and unanswered questions re: Wide Open with Goldberg in emails, though I haven’t attempted since the week of Oct. 29. Anyway – that’s for another post someday.

So – Fine wrote up some impressions based on her evening. I agree with her conclusions that newspapers matter and that they are far from dead. Many of her generalizations resonate for me as well:

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:30 pm November 17th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Politics, Tech, WH2008, Wide Open | 3 Comments 

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