I like the new, thinner Times-Dispatch. The content still needs work (Local? Local.) Eventually we will get to my master plan that it should be a twice weekly all-local tabloid, with weekly tabs covering lifestyle, sports, business, as separate publications.
The bigger obituary photos are kind of disconcerting, but I really really like it when someone very old is represented by a photo of themselves when they were very young. I enjoy seeing those 1920's hairstyles and big red lips on the ladies.
I was looking at the Benny-fit coverage on Facebook. For those who don't follow music, it was a reunion show of popular local bands from the '70s and '80s. I thought for a moment, well, if I was still doing my local music newspaper, I would have written this show up and photographed it....but...but...it's 2009. Facebook has almost 450 photos posted on the fan page set up for the show. How could any publication top that kind of coverage? There's comments under many of the photos from people who were there or not here. I'm sure somewhere on the Internet there are blogs or Facebook entries about what happened.
Who needs a newspaper anymore? We're all publishing our own news.
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