They tell us they did everyday.

And then they post this on their website:

We want your ideas

If you're reading this, we want to hear from you.

Reporters and editors at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are working to keep you updated on breaking news, upcoming events and all the important happenings in the area. We can cover a lot of things. But we can't be everywhere.

So if you see news happen, or happen to know of news (or just have an idea for a forum topic), send us an email at jsmetro@jsonline.com. Or call the tip line at 414-224-2919.
---jsonline.com.


And they need help from the masses to find news?

I would suggest reporters scratching their heads for ideas merely look to all these community blogs for good stories.

That would be too easy.

And my guess is, soooooooo beneath a "trained journalist.'

Last week, one of those trained journalists (in the sports department) made it very clear that bloggers can't shine his shoes after a blogger reported that Brewer manager Ned Yost was to be fired that day. The report, obviously, turned out be wrong, and bloggers were painted with a wide brush that they are unreliable, the argument being that any average person in possession of a computer can blog and write just about anything.

Does that happen?

You bet it does.

A lot.

And that leads newspaper reporters to have a certain attitude about bloggers.

Print journalists, I believe, hold bloggers in the same regard as radio talk show hosts. Rather than credit bloggers and talk show hosts for stories they've done first. print journalists will work on stories, publish them at a later date with some new spin making it appear as though they broke the story instead of making the embarrassing concession that Sykes, Belling, or Blogger X beat them to it.

Makes me wonder just how seriously the Journal/Sentinel will take Joe Lunchbucket when he calls in with a hot tip...