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Premise is silly. You want deadline-based newspaper designers to WAIT until all the stories and headlines are done - then design the paper. And get a paper out?
by interstitial 13y ago
Premise is silly. You want deadline-based newspaper designers to WAIT until all the stories and headlines are done - then design the paper. And get a paper out? I take it you internet junkies know nothing of the once enormous scope of journalism and the resource allocation necessary to accomplish it. Let me explain parallel process project management to you someday.
- vidar 13y agoThat enormous scope is obviously what is killing the newspapers.
- sz4kerto 13y agoFortunately we have blogs instead! /s
- chris_wot 13y agoPapers are quite capable of doing this sort of thing without deadline pressure. The Mirror, for example, once announced to the world that "Monty Flies Back to Front" (1942), and in 1952 told their readers that "Sir Vivienne Fuchs Off To North Pole".
- jpwagner 13y agoMy personal favorite: "Foot Heads Arms Body"
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- praptak 13y agoWhat is killing the newspapers is the much cheaper and much better targeted ads delivery via the internet and smartphones.
- eli 13y agoDunno if smartphones are really in the picture (yet), but between competing with TV for ad dollars and Craigslist for classified ads, they are in a tough spot.
- netcan 13y agoWhat is killing newspapers is that paper is no longer the best & fastest way of getting news now that we have newscreens.
- arrrg 13y agoAlso, it’s not important. Stuff like that happens, but it happens rarely. Most of time it works and if it doesn’t it usually isn’t a problem. So sometimes there’s silly placeholder text. Who cares? This is not a fundamental problem that needs to be solved. Sure, it’s easy to develop some better guidelines on how to handle this (e.g. guidelines that make sure potentially insulting language is never used and make all placeholders easier to find in an automated way) but that’s about it. There is no need to fundamentally change how production works to solve this.