Who’s to blame for the news industry’s crappy report card? The Internet:
My quick take is the Internet and cable news have become places where people can easily seek out journalism that reinforces their political and world views.
Yup, because without the Internet and cable news, public trust in newspapers would be at an all time high.
Not sure if I’m going to write about it, but this is such a great paragraph:
Woo hoo: bland and ineffective!
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How can anybody in the fishwrap business be surprised that people cease buying a defective product? If you leave out half the news, people wonder what else is missing.
Ryan Blethen, freshman publisher
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sentence: run on
“journalism”: misuse of a gerund
“Their”: ambiguous prior reference
“internet…place”: odd juxtaposition
“quick take”: implies a lack of thought on the central thrmr of the sentance
Ryan, you need to do a better job, perhaps there is an underpaid English Major working for you who could give you lessons in writing better sentences? grade C+
My quick take is that news is much fresher on the internet than it is in the dead tree medium. Would you eat a fish that’s been laying on the counter for 12 hours?
Grammar check @4: you might want to check your own grammar and spelling. Your post is a mess.
@6 ,,,
please feel free ….
@5 Yeah, it’s “fresh”, but a little like eating fugu. You’re putting a lot of faith in whoever put it there.
The one daily metro newspaper in town has its editor bitching about media consolidation, really?
They gotta stop doing that, they really do.
How much news is in the newspaper now, as compared to 1985? How about the quality and accuracy of the reporting, better?
It is easy to poop that thing out as an editorial so he does not have to support his own claims with those fact thingys.
What a dunderhead.
… and when you can no longer cover neighborhoods, or people notice that you never really did, you partner with … local blogs.
Ha, ha, stop, Ryan, you’re killing me, oh, the comedy writes itself.
I want to root for the Seattle Times to survive, and believe the Blethens when they talk about their dedication to the community. But every time I read words that Ryan Blethen has excreted onto the page, I can’t help but wonder, when the Blethens care so little about the quality of the Times, why I should. Maybe Ryan is a brilliant leader, a loving family member, kind to small animals, etc. But please, please, don’t subject us to any more of his writing.
Seriously, Blethen family, is this the best you can do?
Blethens, how would you grade your paper on the Bland and Ineffective metric?
Right now, I’d give the Times a 3 on a scale of 10. When the PI was around, the Times actually seemed slightly better, maybe a 3.5. So in that sense, corporate disinvestment has played a role in the local decline.
But the Times did make a major investment in Maine? And what was the outcome of that? …. (crickets chirping).
Dear Ryan,
Advertisers have been begging you for better color ads for years. So did you reinvest your profits in new printing presses? No, you spent the money on bad investments in Maine and piddled away the rest.
> Grammar Check and Grading by SJ spews:
On this subject of grammar checking, there is a good program called Grammar Check Anywhere (GrammarCheckAnywhere.Com). It works in all Windows programs.