[PRCo] Re: Newspapers

[Fred Schneider]

No, Mark, spell check is supposed too catch the mistakes.   But spell  
check doesn't understand two much.  It only nose when a word matches  
what is in its dictionary.   Unfortunately, editors too often let the  
computer look for mistakes.

I think a combination of television, cable networks, news via cable  
internet providers and internet access to newspapers have made it  
very difficult to make money in the print media.   It's pretty safe  
to say that only the morning newspapers have survived in most  
markets.  Lancaster, Pennsylvania is unique in that we have both  
morning and evening papers in a county of half a million people ...  
the evening one survives because the same corporation runs both  
papers, the county is dominantly Republican, and the evening paper is  
the Republican paper.   In many cities the evening paper  
disappeared.   The old advertising jingle "Nearly Everyone Reads the  
Bulletin" no longer applies because the Philadelphia Bulletin is no  
longer printed.   The Pittsburgh Press, also an evening paper, fell  
by the way side.  The New York Herald Tribune is gone (only the  
European edition is still sold).    It's a tough business in which to  
make money today.   People no longer sit down and read a paper in the  
evening anymore.   They want to be entertained.    And you get what  
you pay for.


On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Mark McGuire wrote:

>   I read the Florida Times Union here in Jacksonville. I read it on
> my lunch break at work and also extensively on Sundays. It is simply
> amazing to me how many mistakes I find while reading. Aren't the
> editors supposed to find and correct mistakes before it goes to
> print? Maybe it's just that grammar and math were my two strongest
> subjects while in school. One can be good at grammar but when it
> comes to compositions and essays it's a completely different animal.
>   I took guitar lessons briefly when I was 13-14 years old at
> Lawrence Music Studios right near the Castle Shannon Municiple
> Building. I look back and wish I would have stayed with it. Perhaps
> it was that I lacked the attention to detail at the time. I remember
> always deviating from my lessons and doing my own rock and roll
> thing. I have a very nice Gibson Les Paul electric guitar but don't
> play much at all any more. I have been really thinking of taking
> lessons again. I was wondering if Dennis could help me out with a
> question. I love the blues. Could I go to a studio and request that
> specific genre of music to be taught?
>
>       Mark
>
> P.S.- To try and relatre this back to trolleys, Lawrence Music
> Studios were located right where the interurban line crossed over
> Castle Shannon Blvd. I believe they are still there. Victor
> Lawrence's son Russ was my instructor.
>
> -- Bill Robb <bill937ca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> We have become a society that is always in a hurry.  I've had slides
> printed backwards. All you have to do is look at the image.  When the
> words on the destination sign are backwards the image is backwards.
> But in the photo lab all they do is look at the slide mounting.  If
> the slide is mounted backwards, they print it backwards!  You will
> find images scanned backwards in online archives. Obviously, no one
> is checking if the image is correct. Quality takes time and as a
> society we don't want to take time.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Why is it so many journalism writers constantly make so many
> mistakes?  What
> ever happened to getting the facts straight?  I get frustrated when I
> see
> mistakes after mistake that should not have ever gotten away.
>
> A 29 year old journalism major did an article on me here at Purchase
> and
> there are more things incorrect than correct.  Major music magazines
> going
> out to educators that have cover photos printed backwards are
> constantly
> showing up in the mailbox.
>
> Yes, I make mistakes and they have shown up in the PTM calendar and
> my book.
> God (and most people) knows I am not a perfect musician.  A few years
> back
> there was a stress reducing book entitled something along the lines
> of Don't
> Sweat the Small Stuff.   We need to learn to sweat the small stuff
> and the
> big stuff looks easy.
>
> Dennis Fred Cramer
>      Trombone
>
>
>
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