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. |
Apr 12 2011, 05:34 PM
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Spends WAY too much time at CBTL Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 |
Have they mothballed the website again? No new stories today, two on Monday, three on Sunday, and exactly one new sports story over the last five days. Heck there are only nine posted for this entire month.
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Apr 12 2011, 08:41 PM
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Have they mothballed the website again? No new stories today, two on Monday, three on Sunday, and exactly one new sports story over the last five days. Heck there are only nine posted for this entire month. We switched all of our pagination to St. Joe, Michigan, and I think some internet and archive posting is being missed. I'll let them know. On an unrelated, but slightly ranty, note, my last day at the News-Dispatch will be Friday. I am starting work with the Solid Waste District on Monday as an environmental educator -- just in time for Earth Day! So I'll have to find a way to change my username here... Necessary disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of Paxton Media Group.
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Apr 12 2011, 11:18 PM
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Really Comfortable Group: Members Posts: 1,829 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Kobe, Japan Member No.: 18 |
We switched all of our pagination to St. Joe, Michigan, and I think some internet and archive posting is being missed. I'll let them know. On an unrelated, but slightly ranty, note, my last day at the News-Dispatch will be Friday. I am starting work with the Solid Waste District on Monday as an environmental educator -- just in time for Earth Day! So I'll have to find a way to change my username here... WTF happened at the Dispatch - if you'd care to share.... |
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