 New News-Dispatch weather page, Well, today's print version sucks, will it get better? |
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 Apr 16 2008, 02:59 PM
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 Really Comfortable  Group: Moderator Posts: 1,658 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 482  |
Link to the article here:
http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...amp;TM=60901.93 I'm not going to quote it, it's just a propaganda piece as to how great it is going to be, now that the N-D has partnered up with WNDU to bring up-to-the-minute blah blah blah. The online N-D weather page is now essentially a hyperlink to Accu-weather. The print version I saw today looks like a few reprinted screen captures from the WNDU channel 16 website. Poor resolution, little information, and not really focused on Michigan City. No water temps, though it may be a bit early in the season for that, but no sunrise/sunset info, or much of anything really. Are the folks at the N-D thinking that all they need to do to publish a newspaper is print up some web pages? If that's the case, they should save a few trees and go to a strictly online system. |
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Apr 16 2008, 08:02 PM
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I wonder if the almanac information (month to date rainfall/snowfall) is really for Michigan City or if they are using stats from South Bend.
 Put simply, mean reversion is a bitch. -Vitaliy Katsenelson
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Apr 16 2008, 11:13 PM
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Really Comfortable Group: Moderator Posts: 1,658 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 482 |
QUOTE(mcstumper @ Apr 16 2008, 09:02 PM)  I wonder if the almanac information (month to date rainfall/snowfall) is really for Michigan City or if they are using stats from South Bend. I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. I do know if I'm looking for weather info online, I'm not looking at some website for South Bend. Weather Underground is much more local. Heck, they have a weather station at the Beecher offices at 10th and Franklin, which is all of four blocks away from me. |
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Apr 17 2008, 11:43 AM
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 Spends WAY too much time at CBTL Group: Admin Posts: 16,425 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 |
FWIW, the weather page is topic is the NDs poll of the day, and people so far have voted 89% to 11% that they like it.
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Apr 17 2008, 03:14 PM
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 Really Comfortable Group: Members Posts: 1,099 Joined: 11-January 07 Member No.: 19 |
who cares!?!?!
www.weather.com    |
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Apr 17 2008, 04:03 PM
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Really Comfortable Group: Moderator Posts: 1,658 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 482 |
QUOTE(southsider2k7 @ Apr 17 2008, 12:43 PM) FWIW, the weather page is topic is the NDs poll of the day, and people so far have voted 89% to 11% that they like it. Not anymore it isn't. That question is misleading -- people who are voting yes are probably voting for the online weather page, which very well could be better than it used to be. I just think the new version in the newspaper sucks. Badly. |
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Apr 17 2008, 07:48 PM
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QUOTE(Dave @ Apr 17 2008, 05:03 PM) Not anymore it isn't. That question is misleading -- people who are voting yes are probably voting for the online weather page, which very well could be better than it used to be. I just think the new version in the newspaper sucks. Badly. It looks like something that zero effort went into. Put simply, mean reversion is a bitch. -Vitaliy Katsenelson
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