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Started 2 years ago by Walker
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dmerkow
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I'll note that the comments section says no more about Cbus that the comments sections in every major paper in the country about their city. I guess that speaks to something about America. If you've read Euro papers, their comments get pretty crazy fast too, especially if it remotely touches on anything around the topic of Jews, Israel, and broader race issues. It goes to the crazy place and fast.

The Dispatch isn't perfect, but go pick up any other paper in the state and the Dispatch is definitely among the better - certainly better than Toledo and Cincinnati which are barely long enough to wrap fish in these days.

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Roland
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I think the elimination of anonymity would change the tone of discussion over there. And probably any online forum for that matter.

Verified Users. Not too outlandish a concept in my opinion.

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jennyw
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Walker wrote >>

jennyw wrote >>
It should be said that neither The Teet nor I nor any of the other journo types who have commented on this or other threads actually work for the Dispatch.

Not in this thread... but there are a few Dispatch journalists who have posted on CU in other discussions. Kevin Joy and Marla Matzer Rose spring to mind immediately. There could be others who have posted using aliases as well.

Sorry, I was distracted by a phone call mid-message and didn't fully complete that thought. Anyway, what I meant to say was that no one from the Dispatch--as far as I know--has commented on this or other threads regarding the paper or its operations. I just wanted to clarify that point, when The Teet or I or anyone else provides a journalist's perspective, it is that someone in the field, but not at that particular operation.

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Rockmastermike
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jennyw wrote >> Anyway, what I meant to say was that no one from the Dispatch--as far as I know--has commented on this or other threads regarding the paper or its operations.

It just strikes me as slightly humorous when reporters post to defend the MANAGEMENT of papers they don't even work for. Defending other reporters who may be friends, i can understand, but, I'm guessing the things being bitched about here are the result of choices made by pinhead MBAs NOT reporters and possibly not even editors.

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jennyw
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Rockmastermike wrote >>

jennyw wrote >> Anyway, what I meant to say was that no one from the Dispatch--as far as I know--has commented on this or other threads regarding the paper or its operations.

It just strikes me as slightly humorous when reporters post to defend the MANAGEMENT of papers they don't even work for. Defending other reporters who may be friends, i can understand, but, I'm guessing the things being bitched about here are the result of choices made by pinhead MBAs NOT reporters and possibly not even editors.

Ha! I promise you, I'm not defending the management. See my "preaching to the choir" comment.

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Rockmastermike
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jennyw wrote >>

Rockmastermike wrote >>

jennyw wrote >> Anyway, what I meant to say was that no one from the Dispatch--as far as I know--has commented on this or other threads regarding the paper or its operations.

It just strikes me as slightly humorous when reporters post to defend the MANAGEMENT of papers they don't even work for. Defending other reporters who may be friends, i can understand, but, I'm guessing the things being bitched about here are the result of choices made by pinhead MBAs NOT reporters and possibly not even editors.

Ha! I promise you, I'm not defending the management. See my "preaching to the choir" comment.

yeah, i was more referring to teets

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jennyw
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Rockmastermike wrote >>

jennyw wrote >>

Rockmastermike wrote >>

jennyw wrote >> Anyway, what I meant to say was that no one from the Dispatch--as far as I know--has commented on this or other threads regarding the paper or its operations.

It just strikes me as slightly humorous when reporters post to defend the MANAGEMENT of papers they don't even work for. Defending other reporters who may be friends, i can understand, but, I'm guessing the things being bitched about here are the result of choices made by pinhead MBAs NOT reporters and possibly not even editors.

Ha! I promise you, I'm not defending the management. See my "preaching to the choir" comment.

yeah, i was more referring to teets

I'll let her speak for herself--not that she wouldn't anyway!--but I think she was speaking more toward what is realistic, given the resources writers and editors have available to them.

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Rockmastermike
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jennyw wrote >>
I'll let her speak for herself--not that she wouldn't anyway!--but I think she was speaking more toward what is realistic, given the resources writers and editors have available to them.

i'm sure she is, but she seems almost to be an apologist for the decisions by management which have led to these resource distributions. I could be wrong.

It seems to me that the bean counters are counting reporters as an overhead expense instead of an indirectly profit generating resource. I.e. the laughable thinking that fewer reporters on the payroll with fewer resources available will yield a more profitable product.

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Snarf
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I like your avatar, RMM - very expressive.

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Rockmastermike
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thanks.

Your avatar is also expressive... of your excellent taste in cured meats.

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lisathewaitress
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@dispatcheditor
Ben Marrison
You read it in The Dispatch first: Columbus considers texting ban. http://bit.ly/aHwuPi about 6 hours ago

(the above came from twitter) ~~Funny thing is, their story was posted 2 hours after it was posted here on CU.~~ upon further review, their blog post was up half an hour before the CU post. You win this round BM!!

I cross posted this on the the texting ban thread.

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my medium is dying
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lisa, you saw this, right?

Posted 2 years ago #
jeff_r

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my medium is dying wrote >>
lisa, you saw this, right?

Saw it? She tweeted about it!

http://twitter.com/lisathewaitress/status/10026517650

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Mercurius
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jeff_r wrote >>

my medium is dying wrote >>
lisa, you saw this, right?

Saw it? She tweeted about it!
http://twitter.com/lisathewaitress/status/10026517650

At least the dinosaur is conscience of how it needs to evolve to avoid extinction.

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Mercurius
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Ben Marrison wrote:

Unlike some bloggers, we don't take press releases, type them into a blog and call it "journalism," nor do we scroll other news organization's Websites, copy their information and post it on our blogs and call it our own.

No, they just take AP content and publish it as their own.

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Rockmastermike
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Mercurius wrote >>

jeff_r wrote >>

my medium is dying wrote >>
lisa, you saw this, right?

Saw it? She tweeted about it!
http://twitter.com/lisathewaitress/status/10026517650

At least the dinosaur is conscience of how it needs to evolve to avoid extinction.

more importantly, he offered to buy lunch!

Posted 2 years ago #
jeff_r

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I'm reminded of an old baseball quote attributed to Rocky Bridges:

Ã¢â‚¬Å“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else; build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team.Ã¢â‚¬Â

Should we add "run a newspaper" to Rocky's list?

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Snarf
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Is Ben Marrison an asshole or am I reading too much into it?

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Rockmastermike
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jeff_r wrote >>
I'm reminded of an old baseball quote attributed to Rocky Bridges:

Ã¢â‚¬Å“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else; build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team.Ã¢â‚¬Â
Should we add "run a newspaper" to Rocky's list?

clearly.

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michaelcoyote
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jeff_r wrote >>
I'm reminded of an old baseball quote attributed to Rocky Bridges:

Ã¢â‚¬Å“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else; build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team.Ã¢â‚¬Â
Should we add "run a newspaper" to Rocky's list?

No. That would make the list dated.

Posted 2 years ago #