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    What is a blog?  For us it is a short blurb that we write when the mood strikes us.  It can be first person, funny or informative. In short, a blog is whatever we want it to be. Published June 25, 2009 at 11:25 a.m.
    Tags: newspapers, media, editing, scores, online, journal sentinel, zogby


    A recent survey by Zogby showed that the Internet is by far the preferred source for information, and that it's considered the most reliable source, as well. An impressive 56 percent of respondents said that if they had to choose just one source for their news information, it would be online. In a distant second was television at 21 percent, while newspapers and radio tied at 10 percent.

    I've blogged before about printed newspapers. They are on life support; we all know this. Another indication of this comes from today's print edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The paper, in a headline, gets last night's Brewers score wrong. The Brewers, of course, won 4-3, not 3-2. JSOnline, for the record, got it correct.

    Proofreading errors happen, I realize this. We make them, I know. But, at online publications at least typos and errors can be fixed easily. In print, old readers see old news and today it's the wrong news.

    This does remind me to post a "Daily Show" clip from earlier this month. Jason Jones did a hilarious bit on The New York Times. If you haven't seen this clip, check it out now. Click here.

    "What's that? A landline phone? Ha! Look at me. I'm like a reporter from the '80s." A classic line that rips the old school mentality of print. I love it!

    This clip, in its own sarcastic manner, rips the "old news" that is printed newspapers. "Give me one thing in there that happened today," says correspondent Jones. Nothing.

    Today, in print, even the stuff that happened yesterday just might be wrong.



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    Posted by smc on July 1, 2009 at 12:44 p.m. (report)

    Corrina -- I think we're all big enough to decide who/what we're going to read. You don't need to tell us. Do you realize the socialist history of this very city? Duh.

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    Posted by corrina252 on June 26, 2009 at 2:51 p.m. (report)

    People do not read the Journal Sentinel because it is a socialist rag. For god sakes, just look at the editorial board and jagoff columnists like Eugene Kane and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize why that paper, and most big city dailys, are a joke

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    Posted by speakthetruth on June 25, 2009 at 4:54 p.m. (report)

    The biggest mistake OMC makes every single day is allowing Mr. Lucky to post his pointless blather in the form of a blog.

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    Posted by patrickm1964 on June 25, 2009 at 3:36 p.m. (report)

    Agreed, Steffek. I don't believe it happens much at all anymore, but OMC was known in the past to post new review/compilation articles (i.e., "Best bars in Riverwest") and include places that were, on the day the article was published, no longer open -- in other words, no legitimate research. Things seem much better, so maybe the old lazy writers were fired.

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    Posted by steffek on June 25, 2009 at 1:04 p.m. (report)

    Would you like me to make a list of all the mistakes Onmilwaukee.com makes? Trust me, it would be a LONG one.

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