Is this a no-brainer? Or can smaller papers get away with putting this on Features?
Jackson's death - Absolutely 1A story?
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TheSportsPredictor
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Dude, with all the play that Farrah Fawcett story has been getting? She's been dying for a month.
This is HUGE and out of nowhere. It's the only story anyone will want to read in the paper tomorrow.
This is HUGE and out of nowhere. It's the only story anyone will want to read in the paper tomorrow.
I'm not disagreeing. Hell, I was just in the newsroom campaigning for it on 1A.
But if you're a local, local paper could a case me made for someplace other than 1A? I don't know.
But if you're a local, local paper could a case me made for someplace other than 1A? I don't know.
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No-brainer.
MJ joins Farrah and McMahon to complete the dead pool trifecta
MJ joins Farrah and McMahon to complete the dead pool trifecta
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Should be, and probably will be in my local Tribune paper because of the cycle, but I'm unfortunately not kidding when I say it's not 100 percent and that I wouldn't be totally shocked to see a lead story about some subject like how things are going for local consumers a couple of weeks after the switchover from analog to digital TV.
I wish I were kidding. Unfortunately, I'm not.
But I don't think even they will underplay this.
I wish I were kidding. Unfortunately, I'm not.
But I don't think even they will underplay this.
As I posted in the main thread on S&N, a longtime staffer tells me this paper has never put a celebrity death on 1A. Not Sinatra, not even Elvis.
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Inky_Wretch said:
If you're that idiot paper that didn't even put Obama winning the presidential election on Page 1, yes.
If you're legit, no. No chance. None. Absolutely none. I cannot stress this enough. Zero. Zero chance. Nil. None. Negativo. Zilch. This is the No. 1 story on every paper in the world.
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If you're one of those dumbass papers that left Obama off the front after the election, maybe you make this mistake. Otherwise, no f'n way.
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Yes.
No doubt about it. There was a time when Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer/performer on the planet.
And, given all his recent troubles, weirdly compelling strangeness and gawking-causing child molestation allegations and court cases, his interesting family back-story and the Jackson 5's influence on the music industry -- all on top of the fact that Michael Jackson was still youngish, and that this death was shocking in its unexpectedness, this is a no-brainer.
No doubt about it. There was a time when Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer/performer on the planet.
And, given all his recent troubles, weirdly compelling strangeness and gawking-causing child molestation allegations and court cases, his interesting family back-story and the Jackson 5's influence on the music industry -- all on top of the fact that Michael Jackson was still youngish, and that this death was shocking in its unexpectedness, this is a no-brainer.
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Just heard Dateline is doing a special episode on his death tonight.
From 9 til 11.
If you're paper is not putting it on A1, your paper is led by morons.
From 9 til 11.
If you're paper is not putting it on A1, your paper is led by morons.
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Inky_Wretch said:
Welll, as long as they're connected to the interests of their readership. ::)
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Inky_Wretch said:
Your paper did not put Elvis' death on the front?
Wow. Just wow.
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That's what I was told. I'm going to hit the morgue to confirm later.
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That there would even be a discussion shows the "brains" that have led newspapers into their current state. How hard can it be to post something on the web and get local reaction and find a "superfan." You want to sell newspapers, something people will buy and save for years, you put it on the front.
Local, local, local shouldn't be about geography but about the biggest news people in the local area are interested in.
Local, local, local shouldn't be about geography but about the biggest news people in the local area are interested in.
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I agree completely.
I'm trying to make that point to TPTB. But they ain't listening.
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If you don't want to put MJ's death on the front page, then you're not a NEWSpaper.
If you're going local, local, local, local, then you need to get out there and hit the streets and see how people in YOUR area are affected by this.
If you're going local, local, local, local, then you need to get out there and hit the streets and see how people in YOUR area are affected by this.
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Unless it is an in-stone rule, my response would be "So?"Inky_Wretch said:
It's the day's top news story. Period.
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Inky_Wretch said:
Jesus, Inky, if the business wasn't so bizarre right now, I'd honest to god think you're kidding. Sadly, I know you're not.
By the way, Elvis' death was my first (and one of my only) "stop the presses" of my career. PM paper in Wisconsin.
Our headline: ELVIS DEAD
OK, it wasn't creative.
