Sinks, Review, Newspapers

Re: Newspapers and Journalism. Fantastic article here. It is long, and a bit stuffy, but good.

I read that entire article and realized I will not be affiliated with anyone who would use a giraffe in such a distasteful manner. Your a pig Kingsley, the worst kind of swine.

RE: Sink idea

That's a stupid idea, Cav.

RE: Greg Oden's Tonsils

I agree with you up until you said “Your a pig Kingsley”… this is neither true or grammatically correct.

i dunno. i think the sink idea is great, as long as you don't hook up water to any of them.

btw you can't use neither and then or, 'specially whence correcting grammar

Thanks for having my back orange5o

No the key would be to have water only in the ones that spill water all over the floor, so they have to come out and tell me what they did, and then they're all flustered because they couldn't figure out the sink equation.

And, if they don't come out and admit they spilled water all over my floor, then everyone knows they didn't wash their hands.

point for me!

…maybe clog the drain to the correct one with raisins so all three spill water on the floor.

orange5o,

I usually don't give points for correcting something I said, because I'm a bitter bastard. In your case, I will award points.

I think putting an empty box of raisins next to each sink, and then a sign that says “which one has raisins in it?” in ye olde writing would be more fun.y

But then they know you're playing a game with them.

What's this about a giraffe?

Also, I have never said otherwise about being porcine in some regards.

or, put some small grapes in one of them, and if they open it there's a note that says: “patience is a virtue.” and it's in a celtic font.

now that's a good idea

The only problem is enough people pick the wrong sink the floor will always be wet, weakening it until one day all the sinks fall thru the floor, game over.

People need to start making a distinction between news gathering organizations and newspapers.

I see many people cheering the death of newspapers in favor of the internet, and truthfully the death of news printed on paper is irrelevant.

Maybe more columns about how pretty the flowers are, and less investigations into city politics is the answer?

the problem is the scads of humans who actually do their job not being able to do their job anymore. actual good reporters are getting f in the a. they aren't helping by firing the wrong ones though.

I agree that is a huge problem.

Nobody is getting screwed over in some vicious scheme though, so you can't really say they're getting f in the a. The new gathering business on a small scale is no longer financially viable.

A solution needs to be found or we're headed for that Idiocracy movie.

Right – the problem is that along with the death of newspapers as financially viable entities in favor of free, opinion heavy blogs, actual journalism is dying too. And that's a travesty.

I have a friend who's a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Somalia – he's there about four times a year. On his most recent trip he learned that the LA Times has ONE reporter covering all of Africa. ONE reporter for an entire continent. And even the Washington Post has only four. No wonder no one gives a shit what goes on there until all-out war is upon us.

While that sucks, I get more bothered when I hear about the Washington DC bureaus getting shut. If people think we have corruption problems now, just wait until there's nobody there snooping around our govt officials at all.

right. know what helps? journalism schools pumping out fresh unemployables.

we are heading there anyways, whether you like it or not. (and actually i liked that movie, mostly for the carl's jr. scene with the baby). i just hope i'm dead before it gets too bad

the only way that is changing is if the government agrees to fund org's like that without having any control over it.

on the plus side, that one reporter in africa is doing awesome. we're talkin about that chick from blood diamond, right?

That's a pretty bleak opinion – someone will find a business model that works. It's a product that people want and need.

As the supply of free news starts to dwindle, demand will rise, and someone will jump in with a workable solution. Remember, in the early days of Napster, nobody was ever going to be willing to pay for music again.

I have a friend named Mr. Bananagrabber. He is a hamburglar type caricature.

i'm not saying there won't be some form of news gathering/dissemination going on, but i do think the current format will die a slower death than most think, and in the end, when things get consolidated, 1 out of 10 qualified reporter will be gainfully employed, 3 out of 10 will be blogging for free while collecting unemployment, and the other six will do something else. THEN we will have people just getting their news national, local or otherwise from yahoo tabs or a crazy powerful AP juggernaut.

radio is next. first republican we elect will re-broaden the interpretation of the antitrust laws and instead of 10 radio stations with 10 receptionists and 10 janitors and 40 djs, there will be 1, 1, 1, and 4 and your local radio guys will be replaced by a feed going to a trailor 10 miles outside of town.

wow i just read all that and i find myself to be crazy.

While I do think you're crazy, I also think it's nearly impossible to predict anything accurately anymore. It all happens so fast.

I'd love to see anyone even ten years ago who accurately predicted what the internet would be today in terms of social networks, etc.

i want a t-shirt made entirely out of nougat. of course you would need to butter yourself so it doesn't stick, but i do that anyways.

raisins.

This is why I want to rip open a newspaper and see what they can do to slow that breakdown, or at least make their operation small enough to be viable in a digital format.

Things like odes to spring, movie reviews, and game recaps are a waste of resources and journalistic talent that could be rerouted toward something that will actually have unique value.

A lot of coverage of local social/art events are a waste as well – there are people going to them who are writing about it all on their own. At my newspaper, there would be an intern whose job it is to find and link to these places every day.

Why are they paying someone to put together the weather report – another example.

Yes, there are people who still look to the paper for these things and you risk losing them, but the goal should be to exist ten years from now, not just to make it to the end of month.

well the weather thing is just cut and pasted from a service, so there's that. and a lot of the local crap stuff are done by stringers who get like $30 for an article. and yes the stupid columnists write stupid things. but in order to make it viable you end up firing 90% of the workforce, and that is the problem. they just get left out like raisins in the sun.

negative points from here on out… these comments are getting boring..

except for putting small grapes in one of the sinks.

no, the grapes go in the raisin box! it's a whole fountain of youth metaphor with the….argh

negative points from here on out… these comments are getting boring..

except for putting small grapes in one of the sinks.