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My take on the mainstream media, especially the newspaper biz. As a former long-term Dallas Metroplex resident, this is often focused on the sometimes good, and the often not-so-good (compared either to what it could be or what it used to be) of A.H. Belo's primary publication, The Dallas Morning News.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Apparently jump-page orphans don't matter at Snooze

In what I would definitely consider bad copyediting/pagination, multiple stories in today's Dallas Morning News have single-word orphans on their page jumps.

Posted by Gadfly at 12:24 PM

Labels: copyediting, Dallas Morning News

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Updated "mission statement": Focusing on all news media in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and sometimes beyond. Also, looking at the future of print journalims in its various manifestations. But still ... "picking" on The Dallas Morning News? (Don’t forget to capitalize “The”; the newspaper is as sacred as The University of Texas.) The Dallas half of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area, after Houston, with only one daily newspaper. (Phoenix is also larger than the Dallas side of the Metromess, but it has two dailies; there's a local-focus daily as well as the Republic. Throw in the fact that Belo also owns WFAA-TV Channel 8 (ABC), that to counter that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a “strategic partnership” with KTVT-TV Channel 11 (CBS) and that Fox being Fox, KDFW-TV Channel 4 must always be taken with a bit of a grain of salt even at the local level, and you don’t have as much media independence as I’d like. (Another good reason for you to take at least an occasional gander at the Dallas Observer. Besides, the Observer offers its own regular critique; why shouldn’t I? Now that I've moved, we just get the Bryan-College Station Eagle; not bad for it's market size, but not worth detailed scrutiny. The Houston Chronicle? If I can't get it for free, it ain't worth my time.

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