- “If people don’t want to read about the zoning board” Trust me on this: people don’t want to read about the zoning board until people do want to read about the zoning board. No one wanted to read about the arcane details of Robert Moses’s control of New York City until it turned out he was a massively corrupt, discriminatory tyrant, and then everyone wanted to read about it. But if people hadn’t been writing unread (and unnoticed by the major city newspapers) articles about him before the story got sexy, it may never have broken at all, at least not in the depth that it ultimately did. Not to mention the obscure neighborhood groups that fired up the first rounds of coverage on Moses.
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I am impressed that the Trib, which is upending its business model as quickly as any major media organization and has been pilloried for some elements of that, is doubling down on local watchdog info, going so far as to court the FOIA-filing crowd.
