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Walker, not that you would sell, but - they should buy CU...
Alright, let the **groans** begin.
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JaredThompson
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lisathewaitress
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Talcott
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This Twitter post from FakeAPStylebook seems appropriate:
@FakeAPStylebook "Crank file" is archaic; use instead "comments on our online articles."
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michaelcoyote
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JonMyers wrote >>
Walker, not that you would sell, but - they should buy CU...
Alright, let the **groans** begin.Really, you should make it harder for Walker to come up with April Fools Day stories, not easier.
That said, I'm wondering what the Dispatch would garner much from a sale like that. I'm guessing not much. Part of what what makes CU great is Walker managing the site (perhaps "shepherding" is a better word) and the contributors that he manages to attract. That would be gone if the Dispatch bought the site outright.
The other big part that makes CU great is the community, and I have no idea how we might react as a group.
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EmZeeGee
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I think part of using social media is knowing how to use it correctly, and that's something many older institutions (including the Dispatch) don't get. Beyond the atrocious and depressing comments section (of which I've been the target, so I know whereof I speak), Lisathewaitress has noted that the Dispatch doesn't seem to know how to find its @ replies on Twitter. (Or they know how, but they're not responding to them.) I think that's a small example of the lack of understanding that there's a new paradigm, not just a new medium. You can't just put stuff out there and not reply or interact. If you try to use Twitter as a souped-up headline distributor, it's really not social media. There's a hollow core, and your followers will recognize that.
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lisathewaitress
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Well, I am happy to report that @DispatchEditor does, indeed, know how to respond to tweets. After 14 hours and three proddings, he finally responded!
So. I think they are now completely vindicated. Clearly they have the social media thing down pat!
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michaelcoyote
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lisathewaitress wrote >>
Well, I am happy to report that @DispatchEditor does, indeed, know how to respond to tweets. After 14 hours and three proddings, he finally responded!
So. I think they are now completely vindicated. Clearly they have the social media thing down pat!hahaha, it only took him 3 tries :-D
Posted 1 year ago # -
Anne
King Lincoln
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michaelcoyote wrote >>
lisathewaitress wrote >>
Well, I am happy to report that @DispatchEditor does, indeed, know how to respond to tweets. After 14 hours and three proddings, he finally responded!
So. I think they are now completely vindicated. Clearly they have the social media thing down pat!hahaha, it only took him 3 tries :-D
teeheehee, funny
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Walker
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So, after yesterday's laugh with the Dispatch, I find out that they didn't send a reporter to cover last night's highly important Downtown Strategic Plan Meeting because it took place after 5pm.
Wow.
I had no idea that we were still living in a world where non-crime newsworthiness punches out at 5 o'clock.
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my medium is dying
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Walker wrote >>
So, after yesterday's laugh with the Dispatch, I find out that they didn't send a reporter to cover last night's highly important Downtown Strategic Plan Meeting because it took place after 5pm.
Wow.
I had no idea that we were still living in a world where non-crime newsworthiness punches out at 5 o'clock.I also tweeted this to you, but I'll say it again: Reporters ALWAYS spend many nights away from their families at some stupid meeting. That is our lifeblood.
I don't know the circumstances of the Dispatch situation, but everyone in the media is working their asses off, and missing one stupid planning meeting is not indicative of anything.
I'm feeling jumpy and defensive because reporter ranks are so thin and you're making it sound like we punch out at 5 because we are lazy or uncaring or something?!?! WE HAVEN'T HAD A RAISE IN A HUNDRED YEARS --- LEAVE US ALONE!
Ok, I'm done being grouchy now. Just my two cents.
Whoever told you that thing about "no non-crime stories after five" might be misinformed.
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Walker
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my medium is dying wrote >>
...some stupid meeting.I can only speak for myself, but I thought it was a pretty significant meeting.
Anyway, I saw a lot of people in attendance who were also spending time away from their families FOR FREE to contribute input into shaping the future of the city. Surely the Big D could have sent at least one PAID reporter to cover the event?
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Walker wrote
Anyway, I saw a lot of people in attendance who were also spending time away from their families FOR FREE to contribute input into shaping the future of the city. Surely the Big D could have sent at least one PAID reporter to cover the event?I am not a big fan of the Dispatch, but this does come across as biting the hand that has fed you in the past when you and CU have not been present. i do think that the beat reporters are taxed for time and underpaid as well as have families of their own who may often suffer for a story.
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Tenzo
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back on subject.........
I find going to the dispatch fairly frustrating.
1) When I access it from work I often get blocked warnings from going through the corporate filter.
2) It always opens some ad window under my browsers. After reading a few articles I have a good amount of flashing ads running.
3) The final kicker was Tuesday. When I went there to get a coupon.
I logged on, clicked on the coupon link and it immediately took me to a 'sign up for account page 'saying that this is content you need to have an account for.
It gave me two options. Pay money or create an account with your subscription.Well I already have a subscription account. So when I tried to create an account with my subscription, it admonished me that I could only create one login account.
So I logged back in. Clicked on the link and it sent me back to the 'sign up for account page'.
arrrgh.Yeah, infinite loop.
I really really really hate their site.
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drew
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cc wrote >>
Walker wrote
Anyway, I saw a lot of people in attendance who were also spending time away from their families FOR FREE to contribute input into shaping the future of the city. Surely the Big D could have sent at least one PAID reporter to cover the event?I am not a big fan of the Dispatch, but this does come across as biting the hand that has fed you in the past when you and CU have not been present. i do think that the beat reporters are taxed for time and underpaid as well as have families of their own who may often suffer for a story.
Perhaps... but, hey... the Dispatch could always just link to CU on this one... :-)
Walker's write up of the meeting and subsequent responsiveness is a great example of why I come to CU. Some of the graphics that were presented at the meeting were posted, I asked to look at them in greater detail, and Walker provided a link to a PDF of the planners ENTIRE PRESENTATION... which was fascinating.
So... not only did the D not make the meeting, but if they had, it's pretty safe to say that they wouldn't have provided the additional information as a result of a remark in the comments section (AS IF!).
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Andrew Hall
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@Drew
That is exactly what I was going on about upstream. Had the Dispatch covered the meeting, their coverage (on-line and print) would have been exactly like it was 20 yrs ago - no depth, no link to further info, no follow-up.
It is pointless though. All we get is the continual whining from the press about why we should be ever-so-gratefully paying for the incompetent job they do do, when they do it.
A.
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