Comments on: Local media watch: they’re your source, if you dig deep enough http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/12/15/local-media-watch-theyre-your-source-if-you-dig-deep-enough/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: J Eric Smith http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/12/15/local-media-watch-theyre-your-source-if-you-dig-deep-enough/#comment-9304 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:05:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/?p=6679#comment-9304 Hey dooder,

I linked back to this page on an article I wrote comparing the newspapers in Des Moines and Albany . . . http://indiemoines.com/2011/12/26/a-tale-of-two-newspapers/

Hope you don’t mind!

E

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/12/15/local-media-watch-theyre-your-source-if-you-dig-deep-enough/#comment-9287 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:51:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/?p=6679#comment-9287 “So the most important stories don’t show up on the scroll either, unless it’s the most recent.”

I’m not sure that’s actually the case. I recall them telling me how they specifically do placement and/or “pagination” to move stories up and down and/or into the slide. It’s customizable, not run on a script; that way they avoid putting in stories that don’t have photos.

And while MSN.com is worse, they aren’t a news site (The N is for Network; technically it’s the site for all things media/culture-related that Microsoft is engaged in). MSNBC, on the other hand, I won’t even get started on.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/12/15/local-media-watch-theyre-your-source-if-you-dig-deep-enough/#comment-9286 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:32:00 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/?p=6679#comment-9286 Part of the issue is that the website seems to need a semi-permanent visual, while at the same time, the scroll changes.  So the most important stories don’t show up on the scroll either, unless it’s the most recent.(seal pup, accident).  And this is hardly solely the domain of the TU; msn.com is even worse.

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