Web v. print

After mobility, agility and immediacy, one of the great advantages to publishing online versus print is the ability to fix a typo.

I take responsibility for all typos and each one that gets published is like 100 paper cuts to the tongue (anyone ever see "Swimming with Sharks" with Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley?). What's really vexing though is how the same typo can evade three or more sets of eyes.

This is a week in which great stories are just falling from the sky. Now, not a week goes by in which there are more stories than we can get to given the limitation of time and human resources, but this one is exceptional.

That's where the website comes in handy, though. The trick is balance between the two mediums, however. After it's online, is their more to say that we can put in the next print edition?

It's especially tricky when your print edition only comes out once a week. One issue is that when we publish a story to the web site, it's free game for the papers in our news group. So if, say, The Herald, runs a story we just put online in the days day's daily paper, what, if anything, can we do to make the story interesting to our print audience in a time span that can be anywhere from one to seven days?

It's the sort of thing that can gum up the works while trying to figure out a solution. No one needs their works gummed up.

Hypocrite!

What bothers me the most about this story (link below) is Rep. Mulvaney more or less dodged the question about accepting taxpayer funded healthcare when he was campaining against it and here he is side-stepping rather an answering why he's not a hypocrite.

At the same time he get to repeat a nonsensical mantra:

"That has nothing to do with opposing ObamaCare — which is a massive health insurance takeover."

How can it be a 'takeover' when there's no public option?

I'm still waiting for a list of jobs healthcare reform killed - especially those killed before the law made any impact at all.


http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2011/02/19/1449624/mulvaney-signs-up-for-fed-med.html