Comments on: Community voices at AnnArbor.com http://savethemedia.com/2009/09/01/community-voices-at-annarbor-com/ A veteran journalist blogs about the new media revolution. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cosplay http://savethemedia.com/2009/09/01/community-voices-at-annarbor-com/comment-page-1/#comment-37696 cosplay Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:17:06 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1830#comment-37696 All good ideas. Just wanted to add my 2 cents from the Print viewpoint. To be clear, I’m neither a journalist nor involved in a newspaper. I’m a semi-retired blogger who spent 30 years running a Print business and then a stint teaching in design school.
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]]> By: Gina Chen http://savethemedia.com/2009/09/01/community-voices-at-annarbor-com/comment-page-1/#comment-23665 Gina Chen Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:59:24 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1830#comment-23665 <a href='#comment-23652' rel="nofollow">@Ugh</a> - Hmm ... Guess we don't agree, but I appreciate your sharing your viewpoints. Certainly, AnnArbor.com is a work in progress, but I do think there is potential there. -- Gina<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('23665','Gina Chen'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('23665','Gina Chen','<a href=\'#comment-23652\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Ugh<\/a> - \r\n\r\nHmm ... Guess we don\'t agree, but I appreciate your sharing your viewpoints. Certainly, AnnArbor.com is a work in progress, but I do think there is potential there.\r\n\r\n-- Gina'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Ugh –

Hmm … Guess we don’t agree, but I appreciate your sharing your viewpoints. Certainly, AnnArbor.com is a work in progress, but I do think there is potential there.

– Gina

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]]> By: Ugh http://savethemedia.com/2009/09/01/community-voices-at-annarbor-com/comment-page-1/#comment-23652 Ugh Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:45:32 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1830#comment-23652 Come on, community voices? You can't polish a rock and call it silver. From what I've seen, those voices are writing about TV shows -- really, do we need a local person's recap of a nationally syndicated show? For instance, "Ultimate Cake Off on TCL" anyone? Are you kidding? That was listed on the home page -- Labor Day recipies, and a couple of odds and ends. Who cares? If I wanted to know how a local person did on a reality show, I can find a funnier, snarkier blog by googling. This site promised to provide news by trained professionals. I don't see it. The content is missing. Clunky writing. Thin reporting. Lots of rewritten press statements. And by the way, 60 paid staffers? Have you counted? Just look up the staff directory on the site. More like nine news and business reporters covering government, education and everything else in mid-sized city that's home to the University of Michigan, a big hospital system, and hqs of Borders and Dominos. What's happening in Ann Arbor? I don't know anymore.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('23652','Ugh'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('23652','Ugh','Come on, community voices? You can\'t polish a rock and call it silver.\r\n\r\nFrom what I\'ve seen, those voices are writing about TV shows -- really, do we need a local person\'s recap of a nationally syndicated show? For instance, \"Ultimate Cake Off on TCL\" anyone? Are you kidding? That was listed on the home page -- Labor Day recipies, and a couple of odds and ends.\r\n\r\nWho cares? If I wanted to know how a local person did on a reality show, I can find a funnier, snarkier blog by googling.\r\n\r\nThis site promised to provide news by trained professionals. I don\'t see it. The content is missing. Clunky writing. Thin reporting. Lots of rewritten press statements.\r\n\r\nAnd by the way, 60 paid staffers? Have you counted? Just look up the staff directory on the site.\r\n\r\nMore like nine news and business reporters covering government, education and everything else in mid-sized city that\'s home to the University of Michigan, a big hospital system, and hqs of Borders and Dominos. \r\n\r\nWhat\'s happening in Ann Arbor? I don\'t know anymore.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Come on, community voices? You can’t polish a rock and call it silver.

From what I’ve seen, those voices are writing about TV shows — really, do we need a local person’s recap of a nationally syndicated show? For instance, “Ultimate Cake Off on TCL” anyone? Are you kidding? That was listed on the home page — Labor Day recipies, and a couple of odds and ends.

Who cares? If I wanted to know how a local person did on a reality show, I can find a funnier, snarkier blog by googling.

This site promised to provide news by trained professionals. I don’t see it. The content is missing. Clunky writing. Thin reporting. Lots of rewritten press statements.

And by the way, 60 paid staffers? Have you counted? Just look up the staff directory on the site.

More like nine news and business reporters covering government, education and everything else in mid-sized city that’s home to the University of Michigan, a big hospital system, and hqs of Borders and Dominos.

What’s happening in Ann Arbor? I don’t know anymore.

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