By contributors do you mean non-paid bloggers? Creative Loafing Should post bios and background records on your “contributors” if you are expecting your loyal readers to read what these people have to say. Guess you’re throwing in the towel on the whole journalistic integrity and journalism in general. Guess I will pick up the paper for your beautiful well designed advertisements that rub off on my fingers. By the way what the hell is frenchys a restaurant an arcade an art museum a fish store?

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I agree with punked. "Community journalism" seems to be a euphemism for "blog content we can get (practically) for free, without spending much time editing or fact-checking." It's really disappointing to see publications lay off people who actually can write, just to replace them with scrapings from peoples' blogs.

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"and our guests got to feel out our site editors." Oh, i don't doubt it

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I disagree completely. I would say this is a great way to get a more true for of journalism from people who feel passionatly about it. Too often, I read a column or article where you feel they phoned it in and have no passion. As far as journalistic integrity, I think some of the bloggers may give the editors a lot more work to do for a bit, but some may surprise you, there is a lot of good writing to be had, so get off the 'journalistic integrity high horse' and check it out.

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Kevin I do understand a bit of what you are saying ‘journalistic integrity high horse’this horse needs to be high. If you are telling me I could replace my LETS SAY Systems Engineer with A Web designer or Doctor with a Nurse or a Architect with an artists. Now dont get me wrong I would like to get little tid bits of local content but I think thats the line in the sand

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That is fair enough. I understand your point, but I see a huge difference between doctors and some so-called "professional journalists." I mean, there is a podcast up now about the Today Show and their 'journalistic integrity' enough said. I completely understand your fear of a bunch of people who don't care writing news content, but, I would encourage you to take a look, because the people that are writing are doing so because they are passionate and care, as opposed to the money with the professionals. I'll admit, I was desperate to write for a real blog, and CL gave me an opportunity, and I feel like I need to work 10 times as hard as maybe the seasoned people to provide great coverage, and if everyone feels that way, it ought to be fun to read.

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Kevin, you're assuming that editors even take a whack at CL's "community journalism" offerings before they get posted. Not long ago, CL featured a post that was well-nigh incomprehensible; I really tried, but could make no sense of it. I posted a comment about it and the author retorted that he'd been rushed to finish before a deadline and hadn't had time for such niceties as proofreading or editing. Maybe CL has done away with human editors as well. Why not, since Word has a thesaurus as well as spelling and grammar check?

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Hey, you go girl, I don't have a lot of experience with CL yet, but the editor I have goes through my stuff with a fine tooth comb, which, sometimes it's not neccessary, and sometimes, its very neccessary, but he always goes through it. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I doubt it.

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