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"While the current amount of coverage on the 1 billion gallon coal ash spill in Harriman, TN is definitely lacking compared to how devastating this disaster is, the amount of coverage is more than 4 times what the Martin County, KY spill of 2000 received, based on a quick Google search.
"The Kentucky coal slurry spill, which was only one third the size of this recent coal-related event, was at that time considered by the EPA (which is not known for over exaggeration of the severity of events) to be "the largest environmental disaster east of the Mississippi."
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"The notion that the purity of newspaper journalism is the cornerstone upon which today's great metropolitan newspapers were built is revisionist history. Most of today's great newspapers were built through achieving dominant distribution in their markets, not through delivering better journalism.
"For example, the Philadelphia Inquirer didn't become a Pulitzer Prize-winning machine until after it put the Philadelphia Bulletin out of business (and we won't even get into the role that some believe that organized crime may have played in that victory). Pulitzers don't make great newspapers. Local distribution monopolies make great newspapers.
"Why do I make these points so harshly today? Because I believe and hope that only if and when newspaper companies and their executives truly understand why their franchises are where they are today, will they be able to actually build new digital businesses that can thrive in the future. What do you think?
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"Start updating newsroom work flows and mindsets so that a correction is generally not seen as a traumatic thing but a natural outcome of the evolving way we are publishing online (keeping in mind that some will be more severe and may require management intervention)."
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