TheHoodedClaw
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How? How?
Local Newspaper Headlines!
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Yossarian
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"100PT Splash? Is that some kind of waterpark? And it's heading here? Whatever, layout looks good to me..."
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I am amazed that actually reached any newsagents, I know local rags are under resourced, so a sub-editor could easily overlook adding a headline & strap-line under it, before the pages were sent to the press.
This sort of thing often happens on inside pages, but, I would have expected someone in the press hall to spot a cock-up that big on the front page, as the first few copies came off, resulting in a cry of 'stop the press', for a quick re-plating.
Cambridge News front page blunder goes viral - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
That's because it was part of the 'Local World' group, and there's been shed-loads of cut-backs across the country since Trinity Mirror took-over. Trinity Mirror is just as bad as the other two big regional press groups, Johnston Press & Newquest.
I see Newsquest are doing their usual annual announcement of job losses, why they always seem to bloody do it on the run up to Christmas is beyond me. Cunts.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
local journalism now basically seems to be the preserve of the p/b with the right connections, theres no living wage in it, its newswire/internet/council press release re-writes and their websites are virtually unusable as they are all laden with adverts, autoplaying videos and reams of shite. Everything modern is rubbish
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE has up-dated their article (see link I posted above):
Technical problem, my arse, it happened due to being under-staffed & having a demoralised work force.
Technical problem, my arse, it happened due to being under-staffed & having a demoralised work force.
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
Having dropped a laptop, and on another occasion a desktop, on my face I can imagine it isn't difficult to get very badly hurt by a computer.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Totally agree with that, its been going down hill for years, sure the drift of advertising revenue to the internet hasn't helped, but plenty of blame rest with the big groups taking over most regional/local papers, and cutting resources to the bone. Funny how there's still a handful of decent independent papers out there, and managing to do their job well.
I saw the way it was going years ago, and was glad to get out the industry.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
I was under the desk, tried to pick up the tower and dropped it. With the laptop I was holding it above my head, while looking up at it trying to read the info on it. These things happen.How the fuck do you drop a desktop on your face.
Only you could do that.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
BIB: One comment on the HTFP article suggests that the front page template may have crashed and reverted back to a saved version, which is certainly possible, but it should have been checked before going down the line. Most current comments agree with me that it should have been picked-up on in the press hall, when it started coming off the press.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
the original headline is a classic: the BBC's report of it is perfect.
See the discussion above.
UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
This should be in the Wolverhampton Evening Post but again the BBC is trying to destroy local newspapers by stealing their best stories.
Man 'cements microwave to his head'
Man 'cements microwave to his head'
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Not a headline, but another front page cock-up on the same day as the Cambridge News one, although in this case it's a crappy freebie, that's so unloved they struggle to sell the front page ad space, so they run a filler ad across the bottom, then partly cover it with a paid ad., what a mess. This is a Johnston Press rag.
Again, at the very latest, it should have been picked-up as the first copies came off the press.
Again, at the very latest, it should have been picked-up as the first copies came off the press.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I do a kind of fake newspaper thing for the family at Christmas. I am SO going to make one of the headlines this
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
The BBC News website will not finish off the newspaper industry, the big newspaper groups are doing that themselves, with a little help from google, facebook & other online sites taking ad revenue that newspapers always expected to land in their laps.
The BBC has not only agreed to share content free of charge with the regional press, but is actually handing over cash to regional newspaper groups to fund them to employ more reporters, most of that is going to the three biggest regional publishers - Newsquest (American owned), Johnston Press & Trinity Mirror - the very profitable groups that have been cutting staff to the bone to sure up their bottom lines.
Yes, you have read that right, the TV licence fee is being top-sliced to fund the big groups that having been slowly killing off local newspapers over the last 20 years, it beggars belief.
Take a look at this article: Big groups win lion's share of BBC local reporting contracts - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
- the comments tend to support how I feel about this outrage.
/rant over.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Local newspapers (Johnston Press titles in particular) are killing themselves with terrible websites. Most of them won't load for me on the iPad or phone. Then they go and stick some survey in front of the article and I just think fuck it and go back to read something else. Maybe they think this is a way of encouraging people to buy the print version.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Our local rag does the same. The content seems to be so fluffed up with hover-to-play videos and overlay advertisements that, half the time when you click on something, it's been shunted out of the way milliseconds before for a stupid advertisement video.
Then, if you use an ad-blocker to make it usable, they have the fucking cheek to slap a big banner over the bottom third of the window saying "We notice you're using an ad blocker". If I were ever seriously going to subscribe for an ad-free experience, I think I'd want to have a more positive experience of the site first. As it is, it looks cheap, shonky, and not worth any money whatsoever.
And Wales Online is worse. They cover their site in clickbait links, too.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
I do a kind of fake newspaper thing for the family at Christmas. I am SO going to make one of the headlines this
Urban needs to read this, in the appropriate sub-forum of course.
T & P
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Re shocking newspaper copy fuck-ups: it's not restricted to the locals. Nationals can get it spectacularly wrong too, as the Express spread below shows (see link for explanation of how it came to be )
Accidental headline of the year | Media Monkey
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Accidental headline of the year | Media Monkey
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