Ulrich Deggesty And, recently, there was in the local paper an article which had a picture in which a man was described as drinking a tanker of beer--it looked to me that he was holding a stein, which perhaps could have been called a tankard. It seems that the caption writer had little education. Must be the same guy who wrote a recent article about "navel" officer training..
Deggesty And, recently, there was in the local paper an article which had a picture in which a man was described as drinking a tanker of beer--it looked to me that he was holding a stein, which perhaps could have been called a tankard. It seems that the caption writer had little education.
And, recently, there was in the local paper an article which had a picture in which a man was described as drinking a tanker of beer--it looked to me that he was holding a stein, which perhaps could have been called a tankard. It seems that the caption writer had little education.
Must be the same guy who wrote a recent article about "navel" officer training..
Johnny
Everyone at the local market Newspaper-Radio Station-TV station is being spread out with too many assignments in order to "save" money that they do not have to time to fully finish anything. They are most likely charging too little for advertising to attract advertisers to pay for the production of the news.
Andrew
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This ignorant railroad reporting is especially painful and inexcusable in towns that wouldn't even be on the map if not for their railroad ... Cheyenne, Wyoming, being a prominent example. And my present Bismarck, N.D., another. Especially when that railroad is still a big local employer and taxpayer.
In such a town, the first thing a newspaper or TV station should do with a new reporter is sit him down for a one or two-hour class on railroad basics. So he doesn't make his employer look like a monkey (if for no better reason, such as serving up an intelligent story to the reader or viewer). This wouldn't even cost much money.
Trouble is, the supervisors at these media probably don't realize how ignorant they, themselves, are on the subject ... and don't see the need.
The media business is greatly fragmented and highly competitive. As has been discussed in the context of railroads and model railroads, traditional fan magazines are having a tough time. Newspapers have been failing for years, major radio companies are highly leveraged at a time when many stations struggle to find a niche. Over-the-air television has to compete with hundreds of channels of cable and satellite that offer advertising.
Meanwhile, Internet advertising keeps growing as people shift to smart phones, tablets, etc. for their media content. If anyone could raise rates in this environment--and especially in a weak economic recovery--they would have done so already.
That said, nothing excuses sloppy reporting or fact checking.
John Timm
You cite zero evidence for such extreme opinions which you state as though they were facts. Source?
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
That's not true to my expirience. Newspapers do use freelancers from time to time, but most reporters are hired by the paper they work for. Not paid much at all either since newspapers are dying a horrible and slow death.
My favorite example was in my hometown newspaper who broke the story that the Lancaster and Chester Railway had been bought by Gulf Oil. This was on the web site prior to the next printing and I'm sure they wanted to be first. By the time the story was on the front page of the actual paper, they had corrected it -- after I sent the reporter an e-mail -- that the L&C had actually been bought by Gulf & Ohio Railways.
Joe the Photognewspapers are dying a horrible and slow death.
That occurs to me too, Joe. They are being replaced by the internet but there are problems.
One problem is that the internet is a river a mile wide and an inch deep.
Another problem is that for all of us local news is most important but the internet doesn't give us local news.
John
I get my local news via the internet.. the local newspaper here have websites that report on all the local goings on.
My own newspaper has a website too, Ulrich. I often use it. In fact, I've posted many links to Sandy related stories on Henry's thread. But I still want to hold a physical paper in my hand when I have my morning coffee.
Clearly, you value local news because you read your newspaper on the web. I think that is important.
Our local newspaper as well as the main TV station have websites that are fairly up-to-date. In addition, the local cable company has a news bureau and a website. In fact, they're often first up with local news stories.
We also have a local "news aggregator." The site does a bit of "reporting," but virtually everything they have on the site is from other sites. Oddly, much of the national news comes not from US news sites, but from the UK...
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