pattimartinvisitomiescuela

during her high school years at manasquan, Patti Martin was the editor of her school's paper. martin has not strayed far from her jersey shore roots and has been writing for the local Asbury Park Press for the last 25 years. she took the time to visit my journalism class today and gave a great deal of insight into the future of journalism.
Martin at first appeared to be an advocate of newspapers' unavoidable move to the internet(she even gave us advice on how to become a successful blogger), but later admitted to having mixed feelings about the age of "citizen bloggers"
"[i feel] sort of a resentment because we're held to a different standard," said Martin on the subject, "that's damaging sometimes."
one point that Martin made that i find particularly interesting is to always ask the "eternal question": why? why is it important to write about these things? why would people care? i am wondering why people are more interested in these "citizen bloggers" than qualified journalists. the internet has changed how almost everything is viewed. i am also conflicted on the switch to the internet, but it is probably better to work with it than fight it.
this is a nice transition to what i would like to propose, a website, for our Crimson Courier. i have been meaning to bring this up for quite some time, but Patti Martin's visit made me realize i should suggest a website now. i feel like it would create more work for us, but the results would be so overwhelmingly positive. we could more accurately advertise when the paper will be out, and all of the articles that will be included. we could have snippets of the next months articles and archives of the previous. i feel this would be such a great addition to the already amazing Crimson Courier, and i hope it happens!