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Deseret News changes to address revenue decline
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Oh, but wait, you can print the photo of the new assistant chief filing clerk at BYOB Realty in your people on the move section. I guess that counts as hard journalism.
Just voicing my disappointment
(1) Something vital will die if print newspapers -- the kind you can unfold and hold in your hands -- disappear.
(2) Neither of the Salt Lake dailies is well-written. But how can we espect they shall be, when few US dailies are? The New York Times is competent but imposes a colorless house style on all its writers. The Wall Street Journal, once vivid, is now suffering under R. M. The place for excellent newspaper writing is London, where, day after day, the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Indpenendent, from their different political positions, put out (among much dross, granted) acres of interesting and well-written prose.
Some level of debating does take place in the comments section, but the comments disappear after a few days. I'm talking about structured, one-on-one all-out debates. Those who are not participating in the actual debate can comment on the debate, in a side area.
Those who are interested in local and national issues will be drawn to watch or participate. And most importantly, we can get to the bottom of issues rather than skimming the surface.
And that dopey Mormon Times - bland, uninspiring, and competely useless. Why pour money into something that doesn't produce revenue. And where did you find the people that write for that? Is the management of the Deseret News completely brain dead?
The Church has more money than God (intercepted, apparently, on its way to Him), so it can keep the DesNews going forever if it wants to. As for me, I no longer care.
If that doesn't get this comment banned, I have a few suggestions:
1) Stop trying to be "more Mormon." Those of us who aren't Mormon don't care. We want a conservative paper open to lots of differing views.
2) Change your typeface. Not a major change, but the Salt Lake Tribune is by far the prettier paper.
3) Throw out the pompous old gasbags. John Florez? Don Gale? Mark Russell? These guys are tired, irrelevant, and unfunny.
4) Bring in some fresh columnist blood. George Will is a genius, though aging. But there are some eloquent, young, funny voices out there: Jonah Goldberg is one example. Find someone a little irreverent.
5) Scour the cultural and academic scene for part-time and guest writers. Folks with English and journalism degrees aren't the only people with something to say.
6) Feel free to be irreverent from time to time.
7) More (and more prominent) attention to local happenings, like cultural events.
8) Make the online Classfieds link more prominent. I've never noticed it.
That's my advice, and it's worth every penny you paid for it.
The problem with the Des News is that it is too liberal and pushes a liberal agenda from Illegal Alens to Global Warming. Until they stop the liberal agenda pushing I won't pay a dime for this paper. I think that all of us could agree non-mormon as well as mormon that taking a more balanced approach would serve its readers well.
Let's see ... no Utah Valley section, no business section, no Washington bureau -- yep, that's the same ol' Deseret News I've come to know.
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