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To: Landru
A bump to you Landru, for spotting bill's best-of-the-bunch!
It's been a long time since anyone cared about our Detroit newspapers, ~ I remember sometime back when detnews.com announced they were going to try to be more honest in the future! That one still cracks me up!

They, the 'detroit news' recently changed their website - it is actually better. But I've been waiting for the chance to tell you all, - it seems like they fired all the editors.

I browse the frontpage & sports almost daily and can't believe the glaring errors in punctuation & grammar a 3rd grader armed with spell check wouldn't miss.

Competing with "professionals" like this, it's no wonder newspapers are falling to citizen journalists in droves. It won't be long till they really are all gone, but they're more to blame than anyone else.

61 posted on 12/13/2007 5:38:10 PM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
I remember sometime back when detnews.com announced they were going to try to be more honest in the future!

BBC spending $2 million to learn how to tell the truth

63 posted on 12/13/2007 9:11:07 PM PST by Milhous (Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
"A bump to you Landru, for spotting bill's best-of-the-bunch!"

Was good, wasn't it.
Bill's a genuine treasure trove of wisdom here at FR, but this time he outdid himself.
Wished he got [as] angry more often. ;^)

"It's been a long time since anyone cared about our Detroit newspapers..."

Or from what I hear Detroit, for that matter. {g}

"~ I remember sometime back when detnews.com announced they were going to try to be more honest in the future! That one still cracks me up!"

How very *comforting*. :o)
Funny stuff, couldn't possibly make it up.

"They, the 'detroit news' recently changed their website - it is actually better. But I've been waiting for the chance to tell you all, - it seems like they fired all the editors."

Hallelujah!
A MAJOR "house cleaning" of Liberal-Socialists infesting the newspaper industry as a whole is precisely what it's going to take to save the newspaper industry; IF, it can be saved at this point, a'tall.

Don't think for an instant the *publishers* (in most cases, save for the NYSlimes) and/or stockholders aren't keenly aware of the one-'n-only remedy for the predicament risking their entire investment.

"I browse the frontpage & sports almost daily and can't believe the glaring errors in punctuation & grammar a 3rd grader armed with spell check wouldn't miss."

Amen, longtime poster "B-chan" pointed out the very thing within the first sentence of the brainstem's article.
Though I gotta say a "spell checker" won't catch stupidity or most other oddities of/in the English language.
Only the educated can catch [that] stuff; unfortunately, the republic's been up to their alligators --for years-- with a sickness called, "Form without substance" which permits the shoddy, half-assed crap passing for *journalism* we see these days.
So be it.

"Competing with "professionals" like this, it's no wonder newspapers are falling to citizen journalists in droves. It won't be long till they really are all gone, but they're more to blame than anyone else."

Amen, nicely said. ;^)

The *free market* is as we correspond finishing off the entire industry and those responsible never will figure out the reason they failed.

BUT, those responsible?

...will never completely go away, either. ;^)

73 posted on 12/14/2007 7:53:35 AM PST by Landru (Reality hits the faithful the hardest.)
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