tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post8011040839167833695..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: La-Da-Di-Da, Ladies and GentsJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-5477002358151941842010-06-23T09:32:53.414-05:002010-06-23T09:32:53.414-05:00Jonathan, the Times did and probably still does ha...Jonathan, the Times did and probably still does have a great banking bill page, tracking the status of every proposed amendment. In fact, typing most things into the Times search engine yields "static" entries under "Times Topics" that -as Andrew Calkins notes above - archive relevant articles and go a ways toward the kind of not-so-news repository that Klein calls for.Andrew Sprunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-63018096080486773572010-06-22T18:23:46.392-05:002010-06-22T18:23:46.392-05:00It's true that news outlets do a poor job of p...It's true that news outlets do a poor job of providing detailed outlines of legislation. Last week, I wanted to know how the financial reform conference was going, and I couldn't fine much written on the specifics. So I watched C-Span instead - slightly more time consuming. <br /><br />But I think that the NYT does already have a platform for these issues, but it is not nearly as detailed as you suggest. The Times Topics platform archives all relevant articles on a topic; for the gulf oil spill the page is relatively detailed and even contains link to external news sources (on the right side of the page): http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/gulf_of_mexico_2010/index.html<br /><br />Transforming this resource a little bit with more detailed and real-time information wouldn't be that much a stretch for the Times.Andrew Calkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02443311272898885243noreply@blogger.com