Kansas City News Cartel Desperately Seeking Volunteer Note Takers

The latest local prog blog gambit is rather cruel and signals the ongoing decline of American municipal reporting. 

From our perspective . . .  

Rather than pay journalists to cover public meetings, local progressive media outlets recruit plebs to share notes. 

The reality . . .

So much of local "news" is public info and it even gets reported . . . What great journalists do is offer context, perspective, insight and more relevant into.

This plan seems like busy work and, again, activism not journalism . . . Check-it:  

"Kansas City Documenters, hosted by The Beacon and originally created by our partners at City Bureau in Chicago, is training and paying community members to take fact-checked notes at public meetings in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Our goals are to strengthen local government accountability, ensure decisions being made reach the communities most impacted by them and create connections between residents, institutions and newsrooms across the region."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City's first Documenters step up to build a people-powered public record