Whitney Kayrouz and Mykal Valentine helped Cupid at Hotel's Valentine's party Thursday night in Louisville, Ky.Please post your Metromix nominations in the comments section, below. E-mail confidentially via gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green sidebar, upper right.
Diversity hasn't come to Metromix photo galleries, based on what I've seen over the past couple weeks of reviewing these pages. Judging from photos only, you would think Gannett communities are all:
ReplyDelete* Young
* Always HWP (height-weight-proportional)
* Female
* White
Do any editors ever say: THIS Friday night, make sure you include black/hispanic/Asian people?
I don't know if the MetroMix photogs are willing to venture to the hip hop clubs or the salsa dance halls to get similar photos. There could be a campaign by the newspapers to encourage "citizen reporters/photogs" to self submit photos of the night life, it seems to me. A few well placed flyers on the bar might be sufficient.
ReplyDeleteIt is a glaring gap in coverage.
What happened to the old mandate to people-on-the-street reporters who couldn't come back to the newsroom until they got three men, three women of which one had to be black and one had to be Hispanic?
Those POS features garnered good points in the All American contest, doncha know.
Girls enjoy looking at cute guys, too.
ReplyDeleteWhat I observe from perusing MetroMix is "Where are the men?" If I were a member of the bar crawl scene I would avoid the hot spots where all those sexy baby dolls hang out. If there were any men there, I would probably have to pay for my own drinks because they'd be buying for the eye candy.
I'd be prowling the town for the bar where the MEN are. Hey, sailor, buy a lady a drink?
Great point 12:10
ReplyDeleteFor all of you who have had mainstreaming and diversity issues wreck your performance review (and thus livelihood), take note. Document, document, document.
And this is journalism?
ReplyDeleteAny wonder Gannett is a laughingstock in the industry.
Drive those page views, even if soft porn is the way to do it.
Looking at those photos, I can hear my mother sniffing in disapproval and mumbling, "Such bad taste ..."
ReplyDeleteHere's where I am on Metromix, Moms, etc.
ReplyDeleteJim ca. 1993: Unacceptable; will fight to my death.
Jim 2009: The best thing Gannett has done yet; why hasn't it created more but IN BETTER VERSIONS of these? I say this because we must find new ways to pay for journalism. Otherwise, what's the point?
Sex sells.
ReplyDeleteFun sells.
Newspapers have very little of either.
There you go!
"The best thing Gannett has done yet."
ReplyDeleteBoy, that says it all, doesn't it?
No strategic plan for journalism, but tons of cash and planning and resources for ventures that are solely dependent on people outside the company doing stuff in their spare time and whom it doesn't have to pay a nickel.
Diversity:
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http://louisville.metromix.com/events/photogallery/jazmine-sullivans-after-party/897517/content
http://louisville.metromix.com/events/photogallery/inky-presented-high-school/945510/content
http://louisville.metromix.com/bars-and-clubs/photogallery/saturday-night-at-city/913759/content
It's not perfect, but an effort is being made...
I agree with Jim that sites like metromix are a important. No business can ever rest on its laurels.
ReplyDeleteNews does and always will attract readers, though. Hell, Jim gets his greatest traffic on days he breaks news about Gannett. That's why I read.
But cleavage is always a plus.