'Black Wednesday' in Tampa

... or a freshly caught wahoo!!

 

Yes, sir; a St. Pete Times issue with about 20 more pages than the Trib's.

"You go, girl?"

Good grief. Are interns coming from middle school these days?

 

Here's hoping, frankly, she gets hers for saluting the executioner.

 

If I was in that newsroom, I'd be 100x more pissed off with that intern than the one in Baltimore. The one in Baltimore used sarcasm poorly -- the Tampa one is cheering on while her editor makes ass-backwards decisions for the sake of change.

Here's something I don't understand and it may be worth an entirely different thread: The idea of the newspaper as an add-on to the website.

If the ad revenue hasn't shifted enough to make the online sites generate enough revenue to support a newsroom staff, then how can you say that the newspaper is a supplement to the website? How does that make any sense? Why does one have to be an add-on to either? Why can't they just be entirely different products that work together, but not place one above the other one?

 

The bigger question: why do the absolute morons in charge give away content through Web sites?

About like cable companies starting Web sites to allow free click-ins to their products to watch on lap-tops.

All of this is just so unbelievably stupid.

 

That intern is off to a good start on her career towards being a Tribune newspaper executive.

 

The cable networks have the good sense to at least sell advertising on the shows they're putting online for free.

I have no doubt they sell for much higher than the ads on newspaper web sites.

 

I think you misread my intent. I know there are some sites that allow for free viewing, but I don't think Comcast, Cox, etc., provide their content for free.

Wasn't charging for the content on the Web the talk a decade or so back when "we" started digging our own graves with it?

 

Yep. Hopefully she will enjoy her role of directing Web site coverage of "Old Ladies Make Quilts" and Ybor parades.

 

So is Tampa going to continue having a capital bureau to cover state government, or do they need those slots to provide live Web updates from the Rotary Club meeting in Temple Terrace?

 

I think the intern has been snorting something provided by Tampa native Doc Gooden.

 

I think the intern is right in that we need to change and look to the web and probably hyperlocal is our only niche left because of poor and slow decisions all along the way.

Nothing to celebrate, though.