BostonNow killed a boring story some blogger didn't like, only it didn't

Dan Kennedy attended a forum at the BPL last night on "restoring trust in the media" and captures an interesting exchange between John Wilpers of BostonNow and Ellen Hume, director of the Center on Media and Society at UMass Boston:

Wilpers said the paper killed a proposed government story because somebody watching the paper's live editor's conference messaged that the story was too boring and editors realized he was right and that most government stories are boring. Hume retorted that she found that somewhat "creepy" because papers shouldn't just cater to the lowest common denominator - some of the most important stories seem boring at first. Wilpers then replied that, no, he would never kill a story just because of what a blogger said, that in this case, editors simply realized the person was right, the story wasn't worth pursuing.

Meanwhile, Mike Mennonno, who did not attend the session, explains why, if BostonNow were a literary banquet, he'd likely starve.

Like Kennedy, I attended the forum, but do you think I could post about it?