Every so often I get either a question or an observation:
Are you still writing for the Reader?
I haven’t seen you in the Reader for some time.
To the first I get rather snide: Are you still not reading the Reader?
To the second I thank for noticing I have not written for the Reader for some time.
I wish I could get either of them to regularly visit this blog. I certainly had more readers in the Reader than I have for this little obscure blog.
As to why I stopped writing for the Reader Weekly, I was bumped one too many times. Why should I write 800-1200 words each week, submit them before the deadline, and then open the next edition without seeing what I wrote.
I could say more, but I don’t want to mention names.
So, although I get far fewer readers for this blog, I get to write as little as much as I want. I don’t have to wait until Thursday to see my latest tirade about Donald Trump:)
Thanks, Dave, for asking. And thanks for your own letter writing to the Duluth News Tribune. I just read your “Local View” from over a year ago.
Oh, and thanks to those readers of this blog that pass the link on to others.
Showing posts with label editorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editorial. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Corporate slip-up
David McGrath wrote a local view, “A few ‘no thanks' are in order today".
I sent him a note of thanks, but when I sent it, I realized that the address was wrong. The first four characters of his address were not included. In the Olive Edition of the DNT the email address was split. (Olive is software that displays the printed edition as is and then will open up single articles. It has many of its own problems.)
I thought it might be that the opinion editor was being careless. That would be ironic because he always seems to find something to change in almost all of my letters or commentaries. So much so that I have given up sending anything to the DNT.
I looked at the DNT on my iPad this morning, but I am using my MacBook Air to write this blog entry. The Olive Edition opens with an error on this computer, and nobody has fixed the problem yet. So, I looked at the web edition, and surprise! The email address is correct at the bottom of the article.
That means that the opinion editor probably never saw the result once it left his computer to the automated process to be put in all the various formats.
And probably nobody double checks all of these errors because the owners won’t provide enough resources to check and correct all of these irritating errors.
I sent him a note of thanks, but when I sent it, I realized that the address was wrong. The first four characters of his address were not included. In the Olive Edition of the DNT the email address was split. (Olive is software that displays the printed edition as is and then will open up single articles. It has many of its own problems.)
I thought it might be that the opinion editor was being careless. That would be ironic because he always seems to find something to change in almost all of my letters or commentaries. So much so that I have given up sending anything to the DNT.
I looked at the DNT on my iPad this morning, but I am using my MacBook Air to write this blog entry. The Olive Edition opens with an error on this computer, and nobody has fixed the problem yet. So, I looked at the web edition, and surprise! The email address is correct at the bottom of the article.
That means that the opinion editor probably never saw the result once it left his computer to the automated process to be put in all the various formats.
And probably nobody double checks all of these errors because the owners won’t provide enough resources to check and correct all of these irritating errors.
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