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Tim
post Apr 27 2010, 04:56 AM
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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.

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Again, it is incomprehensible that someone is looking at this and approving it.

End rant.

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Tim   My News Dispatch rant thread   Apr 27 2010, 04:56 AM
ChickenCityRoller   ya get what you pay for?   Apr 27 2010, 07:28 AM
Tim   ya get what you pay for? Any product the News D...   Apr 27 2010, 05:25 PM
taxthedeer   Today they posted Sundays police reports on the ob...   Apr 27 2010, 06:31 PM
Tim   Today they posted Sundays police reports on the o...   Apr 27 2010, 06:33 PM
taxthedeer   Do you still have the number? :P It wasn't...   Apr 27 2010, 06:55 PM
Tim   It wasn't too much longer after that the N-D ...   Apr 27 2010, 09:13 PM
taxthedeer   Got it. :P Here's an example of an obituary...   Apr 28 2010, 03:58 AM
MCRogers1974   Sounds like just another example of corporate Amer...   Apr 28 2010, 05:34 AM
taxthedeer   An obituary for a 37 year old man reads that he wa...   May 2 2010, 08:21 AM
NDReporter   An obituary for a 37 year old man reads that he w...   May 2 2010, 12:21 PM
southyards   To be fair, we don't write the obituaries, th...   May 2 2010, 12:43 PM
NDReporter   Does the ND publish some things that other peop...   May 2 2010, 01:47 PM
Tim   I'm not in charge, so I'm sticking my nec...   May 2 2010, 06:51 PM
NDReporter   I can tell from your posts you're one of the ...   May 2 2010, 07:20 PM
Tim   I don't know. If you know how, you should tel...   May 2 2010, 08:08 PM
NDReporter   I don't work at a newspaper. But I do know t...   May 2 2010, 09:04 PM
Tim   I can't help you, there. Sorry. :( Judging...   May 3 2010, 02:36 AM
TSNSPYDER   I see News-Dispatch has changed their website look...   May 31 2010, 05:58 PM
Tim   I see News-Dispatch has changed their website loo...   Jun 1 2010, 05:30 AM
taxthedeer   Yesterday's stroms grabbed all four headlines ...   Jun 19 2010, 05:40 PM
Tim   Yesterday's stroms grabbed all four headlines...   Jun 19 2010, 05:48 PM
Ang   Actually, they were and there are still many peopl...   Jun 21 2010, 01:39 PM
Tim   Yep - major. My parents have lived in their house...   Jun 21 2010, 06:27 PM
Tim   Times seems to have stood still last Thursday acco...   Jun 28 2010, 01:44 AM
Tim   Great job reporting on the parade, ND! Almost...   Jul 5 2010, 04:07 PM
taxthedeer   Horses on house arrest? :lol: Somebody should se...   Jul 5 2010, 05:44 PM
Tim   You know, I was going to change the name of this t...   Jul 6 2010, 01:32 AM
round mound of sound   Did anyone else notice there was no one riding on ...   Jul 6 2010, 01:27 PM
southsiderMMX   Did anyone else notice there was [i]no one riding...   Jul 6 2010, 03:29 PM
lighter   http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs132...   Jul 6 2010, 03:37 PM
Tim   wow. Well, low morale + very few emploees will ge...   Jul 6 2010, 05:15 PM
NDReporter   Wow - is that the real story? If not does anyone...   Jul 6 2010, 09:25 PM
Tim   None of us on the editorial side knew there was g...   Jul 6 2010, 09:37 PM
ArtSeesDiner   http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs132...   Jul 6 2010, 09:41 PM
lovethiscity   Hey Tim, did you know WIMS 1420 streams live on th...   Jul 7 2010, 08:34 PM
Tim   Hey Tim, did you know WIMS 1420 streams live on t...   Jul 7 2010, 11:54 PM
taxthedeer   I went to the Contact Us Tab on the N-D's home...   Aug 3 2010, 09:34 PM
NDReporter   I went to the Contact Us Tab on the N-D's hom...   Aug 4 2010, 07:54 AM
Tim   From known dumbbell Deb Sederberg's story on t...   Aug 10 2010, 10:43 PM
southsiderMMX   Have they mothballed the website again? No new st...   Apr 12 2011, 05:34 PM
NDReporter   Have they mothballed the website again? No new s...   Apr 12 2011, 08:41 PM
Tim   We switched all of our pagination to St. Joe, Mic...   Apr 12 2011, 11:18 PM
southsiderMMX   We switched all of our pagination to St. Joe, Mic...   Apr 13 2011, 07:20 AM
taxthedeer   Have they mothballed the website again? No new s...   Apr 19 2011, 04:27 AM
Ang   Hey Alicia! I heard about you on the radio th...   Apr 14 2011, 09:55 AM
NDReporter   Hey Alicia! I heard about you on the radio t...   Apr 14 2011, 12:27 PM
Ang   Just talked about the open position, how many peop...   Apr 18 2011, 09:54 AM
NDReporter   Just talked about the open position, how many peo...   Apr 18 2011, 02:06 PM
taxthedeer   Look at the photo the N-D used for online obit for...   Oct 11 2013, 09:33 PM
Tim   Look at the photo the N-D used for online obit fo...   Oct 12 2013, 07:31 PM
Southsider2k12   Look at the photo the N-D used for online obit fo...   Oct 14 2013, 09:34 AM
taxthedeer   This is Skyler's photo. Condolences and Praye...   Oct 14 2013, 06:10 AM
taxthedeer   The photo used in Skyler's obit is that of 72 ...   Oct 14 2013, 12:42 PM
Tim   the News Dispatch has corrected their jaw-dropping...   Oct 14 2013, 10:49 PM
taxthedeer   Newest online News-Dispatch blunder: Title and ph...   Nov 30 2013, 08:30 PM
Tim   I started this rant thread 3 years ago. In the en...   Dec 2 2013, 04:37 AM
taxthedeer   I started this rant thread 3 years ago. In the e...   Dec 2 2013, 12:29 PM
indianamaniac   I started this rant thread 3 years ago. In the e...   Feb 17 2014, 10:36 PM
Tim   Why is this so difficult? Dan "Boone" H...   Feb 14 2014, 01:21 AM
Tim   Well they fixed it - only took 72 hours. (rolls e...   Feb 17 2014, 09:52 PM
Groucho   Well they fixed it - only took 72 hours. (rolls ...   Feb 19 2014, 10:43 AM
outsider   The News Dispatch has the same problems that most ...   Feb 19 2014, 09:54 PM
Tim   You must get some enjoyment out of wasting time i...   Feb 17 2014, 10:59 PM
indianamaniac   Guess what - I changed my mind! Welcome to A...   Feb 18 2014, 06:29 AM
Tim   I suppose I could note the humor of someone who i...   Feb 18 2014, 04:35 PM
taxthedeer   The online edition of the N-D has improved greatly...   Apr 30 2016, 01:55 PM
taxthedeer   The online edition of the N-D has improved greatl...   May 2 2016, 11:42 AM


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