Say Anything Blog

Say Anything Blog (Grand Forks Division) and the Grand Forks Herald have come to an agreement on coverage of certain stories.  Say Anything is not going to try to duplicate the Herald’s obituary page nor with their cutting edge coverage of defunct water towers.  In exchange Say Anything Blog is taking exclusive responsibility for covering the internal affairs of the Alerus Center. 

I think this makes sense for both parties in that while we have provided the best coverage of news on the failed events center we just can’t match their expertise in some areas that they are strong in like water towers. 

The reporter at the City Bent was asked for a comment and he said “This is a good thing.  With the cutbacks in the Herald news room I haven’t been able to spend enough time transcribing the talking points that the Alerus Commission comes out with.  That’s been a big task with them one day saying they made money and on the same day running an ad that they lost money.  And frankly covering all of this spin is making me dizzy.

This will definitely allow me to expand my cutting edge water tower work.  There are water towers in the city that I haven’t been able to make time to write about.”

The Publisher and Editor also issued a statement.

“This fits into our strategic plan of taking the news value out of the news.  Running hard news stories costs money and with our declining subscriber base that’s a luxury we no longer can afford.”

“Market research has found that the Grand Forks newspaper readers don’t want to hear controversial stories.  People want to hear what the cabal that runs this town wants them to hear.  Did you know we won a the Pulitzer prize for being here when there was a flood?”

Editorial page editor Denny Thomas had this advice for the upstarts.  “People don’t want to be bothered with the facts.  They want to hear about how much we are like Fargo, where they don’t want to live.  They’re concerned about how we think the Alerus has improved quality of life rather than wasting ink on how the Alerus Commission can’t remember which set of books they’re supposed to use.” 

Relations between the Herald and Say Anything are expected to improve quite a bit.  All parties seem to agree,  “With the way things are going at the Herald, I’ll probably be going to work for SayAnything sooner than later,” said the City Bent Reporter.  “Those guys at Say Anything need my expertise.  That Whistler guy still doesn’t know how to code tables and couldn’t do a water tower story to save his life.  Having a real pro like me on board is would really help their spelling and grammar.”

Denny Thomas also had this to say, “This is a big step for those guys taking over exclusive coverage of the Al.  But they’ve certainly put in the investment in time and money to make this thing go.  They’ve even created their exclusive dead white elephant logo for the center something that we were without the resources to do.”