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[NDReporter]

Please discuss.

Website publication time change

Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:35 PM CDT
Out of respect to our print edition subscribers and their committment to using The News-Dispatch as their local news source, The News -Dispatch website will now be updated at 5 p.m. daily. While we value our online readers, it's only fair that our loyal, paying customers of The News-Dispatch print edition have top priority when it comes to reading the news. For subscription information, call 219-874-7211.

[5thGen]

I don't post much, however I lurk quite a bit. I live in MC, but do not subscribe to the N-D. Rather I read the Chicago Tribune. I get much more timely info and for significantly less than the N-D. It costs too much to subscribe and I can skim these pages here at CBTL and get the lowdown on what really matters. And get good community feedback (rather than the garbage posted in the comment sections of the two local online editions).

I think a 1 or 2 pm online edition would be smarter. You would still get people looking at it at work, discussing the news of the day before they go home, so more eyes on it. After people are home for the day and busy with their family life, by the time they get back to the online edition it is obsolete. Why bother posting the news online at all.

[NDReporter]

I don't post much, however I lurk quite a bit. I live in MC, but do not subscribe to the N-D. Rather I read the Chicago Tribune. I get much more timely info and for significantly less than the N-D. It costs too much to subscribe and I can skim these pages here at CBTL and get the lowdown on what really matters. And get good community feedback (rather than the garbage posted in the comment sections of the two local online editions).

I think a 1 or 2 pm online edition would be smarter. You would still get people looking at it at work, discussing the news of the day before they go home, so more eyes on it. After people are home for the day and busy with their family life, by the time they get back to the online edition it is obsolete. Why bother posting the news online at all.

Information doesn't just appear out of thin air. Someone (like me) needs to be paid to get it to you.

First of all, the Chicago Tribune is a different product than the N-D altogether, as it brings you news from Chicago, the nation and the world. OUR job is to bring you local news along with a mix of nation and world news. You don't and won't get that from the Tribune, or most of the time even from the Post-Tribune or the NWI Times.

For $16.80, you can have the N-D delivered to your home for four weeks. That's 60 cents a day. What other product can you have brought to your home for less? Granted, the Chicago Tribune $5 less for four weeks, which is about 40 cents a day, but their operations are much larger and sophisticated, and they continue to slash prices to try to raise circulation. I feel our price is reasonable for the product we are able to deliver.

If you don't like the "garbage" people post in the comments, why don't you challenge those people or leave your own comments? I would if I were allowed to respond to some of the comments that are left, but I'm not, so I can't. It's up to people like you to fight the tide of ignorance/stupidity that you see. You can't let them dominate the public conversation and depend on CBTL to provide you "good community feedback." CBTL is not the whole community.

I would hate to think that people who really care about this city would simply feel they don't need to support the people who collect the information they discuss by buying the newspaper. The quality of the paper has fallen as circulation revenues have fallen from people who stopped subscribing because they can get the information for free online. Without your support, it's very realistic you may not have a local paper. While the N-D has its flaws, and some of your gripes are valid concerns, there are reporters like me who are trying to bring you useful information. I hope you would support us in that effort.