What was your most recent chiding?

[Stupid]

I got one today via email. (I got several from my wife but those don't really count.)

The writer suggested I was not a fan of her son for not mentioning him in my blog, when I mentioned a handful of his Jr. American Legion teammates in regard to their conference championship. She insinuated that I never give her kid any credit despite his hard work.

The worst thing is that her husband works in our advertising dept.

 

[DyePack]

"I was going to send you off with a chiding, but now I want to include you in the game."

 

[House]

"There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

The most recent serious one came during state tournament time.

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

 

[Ace]

I got one today via email. (I got several from my wife but those don't really count.)

The writer suggested I was not a fan of her son for not mentioning him in my blog, when I mentioned a handful of his Jr. American Legion teammates in regard to their conference championship. She insinuated that I never give her kid any credit despite his hard work.

The worst thing is that her husband works in our advertising dept.

Readers complaining isn't chiding. Bosses complaining is chiding.

That said, I would tell the lady that you aren't supposed to be a fan of any of the players.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I think it was when I expressed misgivings about a headline in the tabloids ...

House, while I understand your space issues and the fact that small papers cannot be all things to all people, I also understand this reader's frustration. By lopping out all the wire copy, you're basically forcing readers to seek that information from other sources.

 

[FishHack76]

I'm waiting for my chiding ...

 

[Ace]

I'm waiting for my chiding ...

Fish Hack, huh? You'll get your chiding from Pickle_Juice. And like it!

 

[Jake_Taylor]

"There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

The most recent serious one came during state tournament time.

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

On a day like that your editor and the advertising people have got to get together and figure out a way to get you guys more space. In this case the reader is right. You can't just act like the state tournaments were the only thing going on in the world that day. I bet you have just as many people subscribing to read the MLB roundups as you do to read about high school stuff. That's not even to mention the NBA, NHL, NASCAR, tennis, golf, etc. fans who want to know what happened in those sports.

 

[DyePack]

"There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

The most recent serious one came during state tournament time.

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

On a day like that your editor and the advertising people have got to get together and figure out a way to get you guys more space. In this case the reader is right. You can't just act like the state tournaments were the only thing going on in the world that day. I bet you have just as many people subscribing to read the MLB roundups as you do to read about high school stuff. That's not even to mention the NBA, NHL, NASCAR, tennis, golf, etc. fans who want to know what happened in those sports.

But they're a large daily and don't have many pages! Didn't you read his post? There was NOTHING else that could be done. Nothing.

 

[Billy Pritchard]

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages.

But they're a large daily and don't have many pages! Didn't you read his post? There was NOTHING else that could be done. Nothing.

Didn't you read the post?

 

[Ace]

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

Five pages of local roundups? Yecch.

Hey, I can make farting noises with my armpits. Doesn't mean I feel compelled to do it at work.

 

[Appgrad05]

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

Five pages of local roundups? Yecch.

Hey, I can make farting noises with my armpits. Doesn't mean I feel compelled to do it at work.

But you should do a video of it for the website. It's exclusive content.

 

[SportsDude]

I got one today via email. (I got several from my wife but those don't really count.)

The writer suggested I was not a fan of her son for not mentioning him in my blog, when I mentioned a handful of his Jr. American Legion teammates in regard to their conference championship. She insinuated that I never give her kid any credit despite his hard work.

The worst thing is that her husband works in our advertising dept.

That's not a chiding. When you nearly get into a fist fight with a coach in the office, that's a chiding.

 

[House]

"There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

The most recent serious one came during state tournament time.

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

On a day like that your editor and the advertising people have got to get together and figure out a way to get you guys more space. In this case the reader is right. You can't just act like the state tournaments were the only thing going on in the world that day. I bet you have just as many people subscribing to read the MLB roundups as you do to read about high school stuff. That's not even to mention the NBA, NHL, NASCAR, tennis, golf, etc. fans who want to know what happened in those sports.

Technically, the whole section that day was full of stories and photos. Maybe one roundup from stuff we couldn't get to because of distance.

We didn't have an editor at that time. Budget reasons. By this point, we knew management couldn't give two ****s and weren't afraid to let us know.

We cover a JC and preps because that's all we have within about 150 miles in any direction. One guy could sit there every day and slot all that national stuff and pass on some of our local just to make room, and that puts the other two of us out of work. Like I said, justifying my paycheck in a time of layoffs and frozen positions ... like sports editor.

And before anyone says it, I know, I know ... find another job. Working on it.

 

[HejiraHenry]

my wife chided me today abput not taking care of something i'd said i would take care of.

not an irregular occurance at my house.

 

[JBHawkEye]

My chiding came today, because chiding does not take a holiday.

Regional sprint-car series comes to town, plays to a capacity crowd at the local race track.

Track adds two support classes to fill the schedule. Modified feature has seven cars. I write one paragraph about that race, focusing, of course, on the sprint-car feature.

Today I come in to a voicemail from woman bitching that I did not write more on the modified feature, "because that's the most popular class out there." Uh-huh, the capacity crowd was there to watch seven cars, two of which were so bad they couldn't finish the 10-lap feature.

 

[donaugust]

What I hate is when one, isolated incident ends up in my annual review. And the one that came in the most recent year was something that management had never bothered to tell me about in person. :-\

 

[goalmouth]

Five pages of local roundups? Yecch.

You obviously haven't read the Star-Ledger during the school year.

 

[Precious Roy]

"There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

The most recent serious one came during state tournament time.

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

On a day like that your editor and the advertising people have got to get together and figure out a way to get you guys more space. In this case the reader is right. You can't just act like the state tournaments were the only thing going on in the world that day. I bet you have just as many people subscribing to read the MLB roundups as you do to read about high school stuff. That's not even to mention the NBA, NHL, NASCAR, tennis, golf, etc. fans who want to know what happened in those sports.

For smaller papers this is just not possible. Hell, we had a page TAKEN AWAY from us for tomorrow because the people who make the dummies forgot about the business page. We were excited to have 6 pages tomorrow, now we are down to 5. Today we had 4 with one being the agate page.

 

[Appgrad05]

"There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

The most recent serious one came during state tournament time.

We're not a large daily and don't have many pages. During state in the spring, we have baseball, softball, track, tennis and golf. We can fill a five-page section with local stories and results.

So, we did just that and one asshole called in: "Are people who want national sports supposed to suffer?"

"Yes."

It's called justifying our paychecks. Management was happy because people were buying the paper for the local roundups from state.

On a day like that your editor and the advertising people have got to get together and figure out a way to get you guys more space. In this case the reader is right. You can't just act like the state tournaments were the only thing going on in the world that day. I bet you have just as many people subscribing to read the MLB roundups as you do to read about high school stuff. That's not even to mention the NBA, NHL, NASCAR, tennis, golf, etc. fans who want to know what happened in those sports.

For smaller papers this is just not possible. Hell, we had a page TAKEN AWAY from us for tomorrow because the people who make the dummies forgot about the business page. We were excited to have 6 pages tomorrow, now we are down to 5. Today we had 4 with one being the agate page.

We had four today and that was plenty. Not a whole lot in the world of sport going on.
If you can't fit in everything with 5, 6 pages it's time to stop and think about how you are doing things.