My daily posting on the Register have dwindled (mainly from a 10 day vacation where I didn’t see a single copy of the paper). So I thought I would try more a weekly round-up.
Over-Reported Story
Terri Schiavo – while this was a fun soap opera and makes for lively opinion pages, it’s hardly newsworthy. I was happy that the Register only dedicated 2 front-page stories to this. That seems about right.
Under-Reported Story
Polk County Jail – an issue that affects people here and we got to have our say about it (unlike anything Terri Schiavo related). Yet, the Register dedicated only 1 front-page story to it – and that was for the vote results. They did cover the pending vote on Monday on the cover of the Metro & Iowa section – but they could have put a little blurb somewhere on the A section. They can afford space to show a blurb about the IowaLife TiVo article on 1A on Tuesday but they can’t mention that people should go vote?
Best Feature Stories
The coverage in the suburbs section of local artists appearing in the 2005 Des Moines Art Festival. These were great pieces profiling local artists – too bad they weren’t written by an actual Register writer. More proof that the Register is lacking in features writing.
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Those features were printed instead by the ego-maniac Dan Finney, who enjoyed 15 minutes of fame for slamming his employer on a blog while living in St. Louis. Finney sucks and so does the suburban section. Someone might tell Gaps III that he should stop writing those self-congratulatory columns about how much readers love his sections. They don’t read them.
Those features were written instead by the ego-maniac Dan Finney, who enjoyed 15 minutes of fame for slamming his employer on a blog while living in St. Louis. Finney sucks and so does the suburban section. Someone might tell Gaps III that he should stop writing those self-congratulatory columns about how much readers love his sections. They don’t read them.
I’m in total agreement on the John Gaps III columns. Just reading the headline of his columns upsets me.
The suburban sections are what they are – mediocre local coverage akin to that of small town newspapers. They need reporters closer to the community to report on more substantive issues than what local shop opened this week.
Remember the good old days when the newspaper actually reported, ahem, news? Now they are so anxious to wipe their readers asses that they don’t provide them with any thing other than the same “enterprise” that every other newspaper in the chain is doing? What came first, stupid newspapers or stupid people? Not sure.
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