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Boswell's Monday WP column "a mess" because of tight deadline
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But seriously ...
Posted by Alex Dering 11/4/2009 11:17:52 AM

... in defense of print.

As I type this, in the upper-right corner of the New York Times website, in the nest of links for columnists and editorials, is the following atrocity:

Room for Debate: Warren Buffet, Railroad Baron

Buffet.

I don't think it's just the print editions of papers that are going to hell in a handbasket.


You mean ...
Posted by Alex Dering 11/4/2009 10:14:28 AM

"Print is for sapes"

Then they can run a correction a few days later.


Pay for an inferior print product, when a better one is online for free
Posted by Bradley Fikes 11/4/2009 9:50:17 AM

Once past Monday's final deadline for the newspaper, Boswell and his editors turned to producing a clean, more concise version that ran online.

That was from the WaPo ombud's column. And it perfectly encapsulates what's wrong with print vs. online. WaPo might as well say on its paper's front page: "Print is for saps".



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