Is there any local news left on the T-D website generated by their staff? Most of the breaking news links this morning were from WRIC or the AP. Clicking on the inrich tab took me to an Adolf Jewelers ad and nowhere else. Maybe I misclicked, because the second time it did take me to inrich which is now called inrich.tv and is all videos and ads. Under News Videos, two wheezy editors stumble through what's going to be in the paper tomorrow. Tomorrow? Everything on this page loads very slow. Under Slide Shows, the first choice was a slide show on cranberries (yes, fascinating), and yet it took me to an article on making fresh cranberry sauce from scratch. Where's the slide show? Well, not that I needed to see it anyway.
Mad Dog, wherever on the West Coast he went, would be touched to know his Tacky Lights tour is about the only story holding the T-D together for an entire month each year. That's some legacy.
Looks like I won't be going to the Bass Pro Shop again this weekend to goggle at the fish. The restaurant there got another great review, so it'll be packed again. I gotta see this place.
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The Bass Pro restaurant is always packed. Go. It's so worth it. You'll never be the same again.
And I agree. The RTD website makes me want to kill babies.
Say again just why you hate the RTD so? The RTD is the last of it's species in this town and full of faults, but so is every major newspaper accross the U.S. We won't be better off if it (they) disappear(s). We'll just have onle less thing left if common and drift off to our favorite websites and cable shows. There are lots of reasons the era of the major daily dieing that have nothing to do with politics, editorial style or web design.
No hate, just profound sadness at how it is being mismanaged. I don't want to see newspapers die. I love them. My whole life was about newspapers since I was a child typing out my own.
The cultural shift towards electronic media has cut the bottom out of the industry and the economic collapse is the coup de gras. Newspaper management is struggling to keep a sinking boat alive. It's an industry wide phenomona that is outside the control of all newspapers, from the NYT and WSJ to the RTD. It's a trend that is not likely to change.
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