Whatever happened to good ol’ fashioned newspaper journalism? The kind where a reporter would pound the pavement, not some keys, to sniff out a story. A time when you would physically pick up a newspaper, inhale the unique scent of newsprint, and have a tangible connection to the words in your hands. These were the days when ink on fingers was a badge of honor and newspapers were ubiquitous, their rustling sound a comforting background score at homes and public spaces alike. Maybe I’m just stuck in my stubborn perspective here in Schenectady, but I remember my mother’s calloused hands from decades of factory work turning those newsprint pages. It was then that we all felt connected, not just to the world, but to the people in our own community.
Gone is that Schenectady of yesterday. The heydays of General Electric and American Locomotive are receding further and further into the past, just like the era of great journalism. The high-street stores may have turned into boutique shops, but the ghosts of their former selves echo through the buildings. People used to be elbow-to-elbow downtown, keeping up with local affairs that were reported in depth by our local paper. Now they’re face-deep in their phones, digesting bite-sized updates devoid of depth, scrolling without a semblance of contact or conversation.
I remember cutting my journalistic teeth under the discerning eyes of Frank Sullivan. He was an institution within our newsroom – a man who always had a lead on a story and wouldn’t stop till he had dug up every nugget of truth. I was an eager 20-year-old then. He would make me tail him across town, chasing leads, meeting more people in a day than many meet in a week. He was no Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, but he had something that I perceive is lacking in today’s news world. Frank had grit. While he didn’t have the opportunity to share stories of our town with the world, his work, intricate and detailed, became encompassed in the woven tapestry of Schenectady’s very history.
I’ve been in this racket for more than 30 years. Hell, I’ve been fortunate enough to see my own byline floating around nowadays, thanks in no small part to hazelnut coffee and the nightly lullaby of a printing press. But the printers have gone quiet, the newsrooms eerily silent, leaving me longing for that adrenaline rush that came with late-breaking stories and looming deadlines.
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, “accuracy” is often the first casualty. The advent of Tweets and blogs peddles speed at the expense of depth. It’s all about being first, not thorough. Flash steals focus from the real essence. Substance surrenders to sensationalism.
Just the other day, I was asked about WikiLeaks by one of my grandkids. Bethany is all of 12, and it’s admirable that she wants to understand this world. I told her, “Wikileaks isn’t journalism, darling. It’s just data dumping. Sure, it might uncover some truths. But journalism is about more than just revealing. It’s about understanding and explaining. It’s about storytelling. You remember how I tell you bedtime stories, right? It’s similar—that’s what sincere journalists aim to do.”
At the heart of it all is a sense of community. Schenectady is miles away from the bustling newsrooms of New York City or Washington D.C., but our stories are just as real, just as important, if given due weightage. Is it too much to ask for more than just a cursory once-over of our local happenings? Who’s capturing the essence of the local high school football game or telling the human interest stories that once graced our diner walls and coffee shop corkboards?
My name is Brian McCarthy. I’ve spent my life telling stories. But more importantly, I’ve spent my life listening to them. Stories of pride and despair, ambition and setback, stories that hide in plain sight in our beloved Schenectady. These stories deserved to be nurtured and told meticulously without becoming a quick click online, only to be forgotten the next minute. But the landscape of journalism has shifted dramatically and I fear, irrevocably.
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But for now, I’ll rest my weary hands, worn down by the pen and the press but driven by the spirit of sharing stories, ever optimistic that they will find a way to be told, as they should be. Someday, I hope, they will dust off the covers and remember what real journalism was about: Unhurried souls pouring themselves into stories read by folks who, for a moment, held pieces of the world on their ink-stained hands. Days of black and white and read all over. Are those times truly over? Only time will tell. But I hope we remember how things used to be. For the sake of the stories that are waiting to be heard.
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