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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The attitude of the average newspaper publisher seems to be, ‘Just run it through spellcheck. As long as it's spelled right, nobody will care whether it's true or not. The public are stupid, they'll believe anything we tell 'em.’
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I wish people could see how a newsroom actually works these days. With the severe cutbacks, skeleton crew staffing, and the expectations of online media, the time between story conception and posting it online might be 90 minutes. Reporters often write 3-4 stories a day, and there is one copy editor for every 7 or 8 reporters. But hey, you get what you pay for, and when's the last time anyone here paid for a newspaper.
Anyway, newspapers will be more or less dead as a commercial format in a few years. Then all we'll be left with is bloggers and the quasi-professional sites run by students and part-timers. No doubt the quality will be stellar.