Long-time KELO Anchor Doug Lund got his reporter’s outrage up today in response to Argus editor content strategist Patrick Lalley’s arrogance & elitism regarding newspaper reporters being better than broadcast reporters in a blog post titled: “The Only Good Reporter Is An Argus Reporter”
I get angry when people I know in the broadcast news business, who work every bit as hard at their craft and are as dedicated to journalistic excellence as anyone at the Argus..get blindsided by this guy who thinks he has a finger on the pulse of Sioux Falls area residents and figures they (using the obvious “bicycle” metaphor here) need to “Roll with the changes” the Argus is offering at nine bucks a month to go digital with him.
Here’s an excerpt from his webcast. I want you to note in particular the lack of any feeling whatsoever by he or his toadies after having just had so many of their long time colleagues like Joel Brown, Janna Farley, Jon Walker, Peter Harriman, Ron Hoffman, Doreen Weinstein and others unceremoniously “streamlined” right out the door. But, hell..that’s their business not mine. I want you to watch this video to the end where he lays into broadcast reporters..wherein lies my beef.
http://www.argusleader.com/videos/news/local/2014/11/19/19277671/
What did Lalley say that was so offensive? “If you want free (referring to the $9 a month for the Argus news on-line access), go somewhere where they don’t do any reporting like our friends in the broadcast arts. OK, That’s not reporting. They’re way behind….” And he goes on to accuse broadcast reporters of not doing the same job as Jon Ellis, and David Montgomery.
You can see why the people belonging to the SD Broadcasters Association, including KELO, might take a wee bit of offense.
And under comments on the KELO article, Lalley responds. Not to say his elitism was misunderstood, but to chide Lund for noting the names of the “downsized” employees. (Because that was supposedly a greater offense than being downsized in the first place?)
