http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/bernymorson http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/bernymorson "Yes, there are going to be times we make mistakes, just as we do in our newspaper," Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple explains of his paper's decision to have reporter Berny Morson send public Twitter updates live from the funeral of three-year-old Marten Kudlis, who was killed when a driver crashed into an ice cream shop in Aurora, Colo. Temple stops well short of apologizing for any lapse in judgment. But the people he should apologize to are the paper's owners. Newspapers are a business, and if children bleed, the story leads to a lot of advertising inventory. When the print business model is dying, why is it giving away pageviews to Twitter instead of liveblogging on its own website?

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5049807&view=rss&microfeed=true The only people more tragic than Web 2.0 pundits who demand newspaper reporters overshare their every move are the reporters who take their advice. Berny Morson from Denver's Rocky Mountain News dragged the gravesite into the 21st century Wednesday by sending updates from the funeral of a three-year-old boy killed in a car crash that made headlines last week. I'm not saying Berny (is that M or F?) shouldn't have done it — I'm saying Berny did it wrong. Rather than convey the human drama on location, Morson dryly noted each step in a ritual that readers could have guessed. Next time, why not let the next of kin do the typing? That seems easier.

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