Bigfork Eagle editorial

I can't get no….

It's not an easy task—community journalism. Keeping your community satiated and content with the content you publish on a weekly basis is difficult at best.

The inner workings of a newspaper are continually overlooked by the public, and the blind criticisms fly at whim.

Individuals cry "unfair coverage" or "personal bias" without truly understanding the time and thought that goes into each and every article in each and every edition of the paper.

Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to provide the community with satisfaction.

It is time to revisit what the Bigfork Eagle strives to accomplish every week. The three-person editorial staff does its best to give this community what it wants and deserves—quality journalism. Our peers seem to think we're doing a pretty good job, as is evident by our recent accumulation of Montana Newspaper Association awards.

Every week we spread ourselves over Bigfork to find all the news, human-interest and sports stories that are fit to print. We give up our weekends and holidays to cover events. We write until the wee hours of morning. And we do it because we have a passion for it.

The staff at the Bigfork Eagle is dedicated to community journalism. We are satisfied with the product we put out week after week, but we constantly try to achieve better coverage.

Sam Kaufman earned the most awards from the MNAs this year for the Eagle, and rightfully so. His dedication to prep sports is evident in his stories, photos and pages.

Russ Miller has a definite nose for news. A one-time editor, he has a keen sense of issues and their relevance to the community. And your humble editor, well, she just works hard.

As expressed in an editorial just over a year ago, the staff has an open-door policy. If you like something, disagree with something, or would like to see more of something in the Eagle, stop by the office. Face to face chats often yield the most enduring results and hopefully satisfaction will also result.