Comments on: Made In Chicago http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/02/05/made-in-chicago/ Where The Latest On Former Hartford Courant Employees Can Be Found Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paul Stern http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/02/05/made-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Paul Stern Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:12:30 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=838#comment-158 True. A salary Tribune won't be paying to one of our friends, most likely. True. A salary Tribune won’t be paying to one of our friends, most likely.

]]> By: Karen http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/02/05/made-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Karen Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:09:25 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=838#comment-157 It saves some wire editor/copy editor/layout editor hours -- maybe even a salary or two over time. It saves some wire editor/copy editor/layout editor hours — maybe even a salary or two over time.

]]> By: Denis http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/02/05/made-in-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Denis Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:00:47 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=838#comment-156 Besides looking a bit off, the insult is that the local papers (THC, that is) are compelled to accept Chicago's wisdom as to what national news will be displayed, and how. If the Courant wanted to do a bigger spread on, say, the Justice Ginsburg illness, tough luck. With nearly no space whatever for national/international except on the canned pages, a local paper has no voice whatever in what its readers will get except what is handed to them from several time zones away. All this to save ... what? Same newsprint. Someone still has to monitor it to ensure that the paper doesn't duplicate things. It's all wires anyway so no savings there. Not a good idea. denis Besides looking a bit off, the insult is that the local papers (THC, that is) are compelled to accept Chicago’s wisdom as to what national news will be displayed, and how. If the Courant wanted to do a bigger spread on, say, the Justice Ginsburg illness, tough luck. With nearly no space whatever for national/international except on the canned pages, a local paper has no voice whatever in what its readers will get except what is handed to them from several time zones away. All this to save … what? Same newsprint. Someone still has to monitor it to ensure that the paper doesn’t duplicate things. It’s all wires anyway so no savings there.
Not a good idea.

denis

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