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We had an interesting discussion during a newsroom meeting today about publishing stories on the anniversary of tragedies such as Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11.
One editor thought publishing such stories year after year becomes predictable and thus uninteresting to readers. What else can you say about the same tragedy?
Another editor said tragedies need to be remembered, reported about on their anniversary and learned from. How would you feel if you'd lived through Pearl Harbor and the press forgot to mention that tragic December day in your hometown newspaper?
Most seemed to agree on one thing: Maybe it's best on a tragedy's anniversary to give readers something new to read, to learn from and to remember the tragedy by.
With the anniversary of Sept. 11 nearing, one idea shared was to simply ask a number of local and area residents about where they were on that tragic day. Another idea was to find a new angle -- somebody local with an interesting, informative tie to the tragedy...
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