Does Dead Tree Media Design Still Matter?!?
An interesting look at the long lost art of Dead Tree Media Design: How The Kansas City Star blew a golden opportunity on its excellent semi-automatic weapons story
Unfortunately, we have to disagree with legendary Newsman Jimmy C. and here's why: "Design" and placement on paper is no longer important . . . Instead, retweets, likes and maybe even comments are more vital to the "importance" of a news story and those factors are usually listed and ranked automatically . . . Website design is probably more vital but even then users choosing their own settings and media watching preferences which trump concern over design as well. In the new digital paradigm, the reader/subscriber/Internets rules and chooses the way the news is "designed" while the decision no longer depends solely on the producers of the content who are becoming less vital to the process every day.
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KC Star just blows end of story.
Well I sure hope Jimmy's retirement pension holds up or he at least parked some money somewhere offshore, etc. Maybe he secretly sells heroin and crack or something while slamming the dead tree media that supported him for 32 years. Journalists these days pretty much just make shit up to get a paycheck.
Typical boomer. I got mine good luck getting yours kids.
"I got mine good luck getting yours kids"
What does this f-in mean? No wonder you guys are out of work, you can't write at a 3rd grade level.
Hurts my eyes.
The Kansas City Star is more and more irrelavant every day.
NOT imo, because of technology, but because it refuses to shed the imperious presumption that it's agenda is sacrosanct in combination with restricted commentary.
Tony sure as hell has an agenda, but he lets me, Byron, the "N" word guy, Superdave, spyke, anon, et al, express our views, no matter how radical various individuals think those same views are.
This free speech zone, by way of that radical commentary (Or not so radical, depending on your subjective opinion.), aquires not only the reputation for honesty (No one is holding back here.), from it's commenters, but a catharsis that I beleive dooms any blog or newspaper which subverts or trys to control that commentary.
The real opinion of readers is important, no matter what that opinion is. Lying to ourselves about how our neighbors feel concerning any subject, inhibits solutions to any problem and encourages mistakes in public and private intitiatives.
The Star could cancel profanity with ease. What the Star really can't cancel, or countenance, is eclectic opinion from all quarters of society, which would run counter to the Star's insistance on how they believe the world should run, and, more importatnly, the roles we plebes play in it.
Fitz makes some good points but Jesus, the Star has more issues with substance than style.
The Star is increasingly irrelevant in every way possible, yet they cling to the dinosaur shit they are so used to shoveling - and that is the sure sign of its insurmountable impending collapse. Laughable turd-tossers like Y.A. and M.S. only serve to punctuate the fact that the Star is about to nova.
The continued pitiful attempts at propagandizing and social engineering by its woefully out-of-date and out-of-touch staff is a daily laugh riot to anyone who has the ability to read beyond a headline and employ even the most basic critical thinking.
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