My News Dispatch rant thread |
My News Dispatch rant thread |
Apr 27 2010, 04:56 AM
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Really Comfortable Group: Members Posts: 1,829 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Kobe, Japan Member No.: 18 |
Okay - I've posted stuff about the ND and I don't want to gum up the board with any more threads. So I'll just use this one. If you're not interested please skip over it.
As I've said many times, the News Dispatch is one of those hometown institutions that's been part of my life since I was a kid in Edgewood in the 50's. And to be fair they do get it right a lot of times. But in the last couple of years - apparently due to budget/staff cuts - the paper's really gone downhill. That's just sad - but it also pisses me off that someone in power is letting this happen. I'll not be posting Deb Sederberg gaffes. She's obviously a tolerated lost cause. So - today's rant. Is a 10-year-old running the online edition? How many times to we see pictures like this? Does whoever's doing that NOT know that you can't just take a thumbnail file, stretch it ten times its original size, and have it not look like crap? They do this constantly. From today's story about the park idiocy. First the thumbnail - and then a screenshot of how it came out. Again, it is incomprehensible that someone is looking at this and approving it. End rant. |
Jul 6 2010, 01:32 AM
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Really Comfortable Group: Members Posts: 1,829 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Kobe, Japan Member No.: 18 |
You know, I was going to change the name of this thread to News Dispatch Raves. It's now kind of obvious that the News Dispatch, due to staff/budget cuts, is running on fumes. As such it seems just too negative or unfairly vicious to keep ragging on a part of the city that I love. If the choice were this or no ND I think I'll take this. But this thing about the parade is just appalling. There's no question asked - nothing to set up what the "article" is even about. Was this in the print edition? When one reads the article about the drum corps show - which was well done - one wonders how crap like this even gets in the paper. But whatever. It is what it is. I'm not serving any positive purpose by bitching about something that can't be helped. So I think I'll look for the good stuff the ND does - and they still do good stuff - and illuminate that. It's like an old uncle who wets himself occasionally. Yeah - there's a mess to clean up - but it's better than trying to find a suit to bury him in.
So good luck, News Dispatch - I'll be looking for your good side. |
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