Dear dimwit on the phone

Yep.

 

How can you not run those results?
Reader interest is pretty well established by now.

 

The version of the major metro we get in our office has the most peculiar scoreboard I'v ever seen. Some Mondays, it'll run the NASCAR results last - and cut off the finishers at whatever fits - 10th, 23rd, whatever.

I assume that's something that gets fixed for its city edition, but I'm not sure about that at all.

 

NASCAR is a disease that is destroying America. I'd run results and lineups, but that's about it.

 

One person calling in doesn't mean reader interest is pretty well established. Gidal works in Montana -- it's in his signature -- and that's not exactly a hotbed for NASCAR. Now if he lived in Alabama, Mississippi, etc. then he's in a hotbed.

 

Another e-mail from the archives to share with you all:

Wonders how he feels about the university that does go by the city name instead of the state name, because he didn't attend that school either.

 

Almost sounds like a desparate plea to cover his alma mater instead ofi Univesity of Podunk. One of the things i like about having a mostly-local paper, relying on wires for coverage of Mid-Major State up the road and wrapping everything else up in capsules. Sorry, BCS Tech and Self-Important Catholic.

 

But there's seemingly enough reader interest to run a Daytona preview package. For most races, qualifying is an oh-by-the-way thing that might merit a brief on Saturday morning. For Daytona, because of the qualifying races, there's a little more emphasis on it. It's a bigger deal. It's also the first "real" taste of racing, even if it's not a points race.
If you're going to play up the 500 in your section -- and you have the room, of course -- you really should run a story on the qualifying races as well.

 

Had to explain to a father of a player how a photographer, reporter, web editor, and copy editor's job goes. That's always fun.
Just because you call a paper and talk to one person does not mean that that person (me) on the line is going to know how all four of those people think or do their job.
He actually thought that calling at 12:30 a.m. was the perfect time to get all this crap sorted out as well!
I don't blame him for being upset (daddy's dearest was the leading scorer and the photog screwed up her last name in one of the 3 pics that ran on the web while the reporter left her out of the story) but the copy desk did not run that photo, so we never saw the error and we can't fact check everything in the story, we have to assume the reporter would get the leading scorer right!
I'm sure we cost her two scholarship offers!

 

Dear blogger whose work is being shared all over FB by folks in our town,

I understand you disagreed with one of our writers. But don't write you "feel compelled to correct these errors since it was not publish in the opinion section" because it was published online only on our sports blog and it was clearly labeled as a column - which makes it an opinion piece.

Carry on with your ranting,
Inky

 

Not entirely sure I want to go down this rabbit hole, but ....

What the fuck are you talking about?

 

Mark being Mark.