Star Tribune launches daily Webcast

Some Guy · Mar 4, 2009

Joe Williams said:

Frank_Ridgeway said:

I think newspapers should do Webcasts around the clock. But they ought to spend the money to do them well, hiring professional video and on-air talent instead of thinking that anyone can do it.
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Now newspapers are like baseball teams cutting themselves down to the size of basketball teams but deciding that they have to play football. From 9 down to 5, suddenly needing 11. With a payroll budget for maybe 2.5.
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That's pretty much spot on.

Charlie Brown · Mar 4, 2009

PCLoadLetter said:

Lileks is a fairly well-known blogger, isn't he? I assume whatever appeal this holds would be strictly for the people who read and like him.

In the big picture, this is a colossally stupid idea. I'm not sure why a newspaper would want to present itself as a collection of complete amateurs trying to copy the local TV stations and failing badly.

It's a bit like the TV station printing out thousand of copies of its late newscast scripts, stapling them together, and then throwing them on driveways and pretending it's a newspaper.

The only excuse for something like this would be, as Stitch said, in a place where there are no local TV stations doing news. That ain't Minneapolis.
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This is one of my favorite posts ever on this board. Nailed it.

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