If you’re not special like me, and already received an invitation to check out the Courier-Journal’s new website, here’s your chance.
I wrote a column on it for LEO this week. The top brass at the C-J wants your feedback, but News VP Bennie Ivory didn’t want to talk to LEO about the redesign.
Here’s the start of the column:
Boy, did I feel special. Last Thursday I got an e-mail from Ric Manning, online operations manager for The Courier-Journal, with an invitation to test-drive the paper’s new web template. It is still in beta testing. The site is not quite ready for launch — that’s just weeks away — but Manning told me how to get in. He wanted me to be among the first to have a look-see, and to evaluate it and let him know what I think.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Jerry Conder // Mar 5, 2008 at 9:04 am
C.J. print coverage is still not what I would call top-notch but their website features better video than any of the local TV stations. Usually in a more timely manner as well. All they need now is to hire Boel or Rodemeir and they can compete with their broadcast brethren for top news outlet.
2 Gordon // Mar 5, 2008 at 10:10 am
Jerry,
Interesting take on it. They have former TV guys shooting video. Studies show, however, that folks turn to TV during breaking news and weather more than any other media. Also, are Gary or John Left Wing Liberals? That’s a qualification to work at the CJ. Give us another story on how great life is in communist Cuba!
Ole!
3 Marion Bellows // Mar 5, 2008 at 10:32 am
Studies also show that 90 % of all horse owners will continue to use their animals and buggies for transportation rather than purchasing an automobile. Of course that study was done for Henry Ford when he first prosposed mass producing the Model A. Times will change and those who do not adapt will be left in the stable. John Boel is as liberal as they come, but that’s okay. I prefer to know the source from which my news comes. Even Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow had opinions, I just never let their thoughts interfere with my own.
4 louisvillobserver // Mar 5, 2008 at 10:40 am
John NEVER lets his views get in the way of telling the story. BTW…he’s also a member of Southeast Christian Church, so I wouldn’t say he’s as “liberal as they come.”
5 Marion Bellows // Mar 5, 2008 at 11:12 am
AS LIBERAL AS THEY COME I SAY! Belief in mythological religious icons is not an indicator of political preference. If he indeed writes the news he reads, and I am talking about his investigative pieces not the day to day drivel, then he is AS LIBERAL AS THEY COME. Try listening objectively instead of just looking into those dreamy baby blues and then maybe the truth will reveal itself.
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7 Stop the Boel Bashing // Mar 6, 2008 at 11:49 am
I work with John and I am compelled to releate that John Boel is not a liberal or a conservative. He is, as Winton Churchill put it, a question surrounded by mystery wrapped in an enigma. John goes to church to worship his “religious icon,” on Sunday, but on Saturday he’s at The AC/DC concert. I know for a fact he voted for both George W. Bush and Ernie Fletcher, yet his favortie film is Fahrenheit/911 and he is not opposed to gambling. His favorite reads include The Bible, The Koran, “The Way Things Ought To Be” and “Liars and the Liars that Tell Them. ” He’s a fan of both Barabara Streisand and Bruce Willis. He hangs out in the park for fun and for work. He loves both Swift Boaters and MoveOn.organites. To classify him as either liberal or conservative would be an insult to his true personna. He is a Renaissance Moderate….I think
8 Stop the Boel Bashing // Mar 6, 2008 at 11:51 am
Please fix my above spelling error or please get a spell check. I hate to look “stoopit”
9 Gordon // Mar 6, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Hey Marion, that latest study on where folks go to get breaking news and weather.came out this past Monday, March 3,2008. Next question.
10 Marion Bellows // Mar 7, 2008 at 7:52 am
I didn’t ask a question but thanks. You are obviously well associated with history but what we’re talking about here is the future. Today’s surveys do not incorporate tomorrow’s technology. Just as your two-dimensional thinking doesn’t include the progression of the internet to it’s logical next step. Nohing can compete in this society with instant gratification. The internet already is supplying this need in so many ways including information. Broadcast TV, Satelite, Cable even TiVo cannot compete once streamed TV becomes the norm. Why is it you cannot see what is right there in plain sight? Perhaps it’s because you’re too concerned with surveys and studies and……wait a minute, Do you work for Metro Government?
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