Fire damages downtown restaurant
A fire damaged a restaurant on Ste-Catherine near St-Dominique overnight. (Same brief CP story in English and French.)
When you read old issues of the Gazette, a news story like this would at least give the name of the restaurant. Stories about individuals often even gave their addresses. I wonder when it became standard procedure to be so coy about this kind of detail. I can see not mentioning where a person lives, but this minor story is hardly news if we can’t even be told where it happened.
ProposMontreal-Martin 07:28 on 2020-07-07 Permalink
Both La Presse and CTV used a Canadian Press news clipping. Copied and pasted it and voila, here is some content. If the “journalist” or bot didn’t write any pertinent info, who cares. I do read a lot of old newspaper in both languages and you are right, papers used to care.
Now it’s only content to sell ads. So I don’t believe that they are coy about details, I believe they just don’t care anymore
Kevin 11:03 on 2020-07-07 Permalink
Canadian Press articles are written by actual people. Not every article gets a name attached, though.
It’s a wire service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canadian_Press
What you are experiencing is a) summer vacation, and b) the loss of full-time reporting jobs across Canada.