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Yesterday the Courier-Journal’s John Mura told us to remove one of thousands of header images we use on Page One, The ‘Ville Voice and other sites because it included the front of a newspaper distribution box on a public sidewalk taken from a public street.
According to Mura, “folks could get confused about whose opinions are being offered.” Which makes tons of sense. Because these websites only offer opinion and never indisputable facts. And because no other photos of newspapers, publications, outlets and such appear on these sites, right? Right.
So, I’ve gotta know… will LEO Weekly demand that images like the one below be removed from our websites?
LEO HEADER IMAGE
Because it’s not obvious these sites have nothing to do with LEO, right?
Doesn’t LEO care about anything? Why won’t those folks demand we remove all images, forever?
You better get cracking, Stephen George, because these sites are clearly confusing readers.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Bored Commentor // Nov 24, 2009 at 10:53 am
Jake, this issue really isn’t that big a deal. Please quit acting like we cared beyond the initial post.
2 Stephen George // Nov 24, 2009 at 11:08 am
You even had the gall to post a photo taken right in front of our office. How did you get such an image? You must’ve broken into the sidewalk, maybe via the public road where our office is. Vexing.
Expect to hear from our legal team, Payne. Consider the gauntlet thrown.
3 EdenSprings // Nov 24, 2009 at 11:41 am
Sounds like another C-J Headline in the making to me. Why report on real news when you can make up your own? Wonder what Mayoral disaster they’re needing to cover up now?
4 EdenSprings // Nov 24, 2009 at 11:48 am
Jake: Given the fall-off in C-J’s readership, I think you should Mura an invoice for running a free advertising banner on your site for the past year.
5 DangerBoy // Nov 24, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Jake, Could you please refrain from using the English language when displaying your malicous truths and facts through this fly-by-night and soon to be abandoned medium known as “the Internet.” One might construe that other financially stable publications like the ever so truthful and never opinion based Communist Journal along with other lame stream media outlets and in fact, anyone using the same English language may in league with your site.
6 AC360 // Nov 24, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I thought you beat this into the ground, but now that I am reading comments…..You must give credit to the wit of your readers. Hilarious!
7 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Nov 24, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Slightly off-topic, but I think our community has reached the moment where we need to seriously consider how community news is going to be fully covered once the C-J dies. It’s inevitable at this point.
8 chief // Nov 24, 2009 at 8:18 pm
How can anyone not see that with the ability to read the content of sites like the V.V. and others. That the TRUTH and presentation of the news that the C-J puts out is suspect ?….to only the way they see it and decide to SPIN it!
9 Crutnacker // Nov 24, 2009 at 8:37 pm
When I saw that banner pic running on your website, I got incredibly confused, because I saw the Courier Journal masthead but then saw commentary that was critical of the bonehead moves of Mayor For Life. The disconnect of seeing legitimate opinions combined with the Courier Journal made my head explode and almost made me resubscribe to them again. Then I accidentally refreshed and saw a banner pic of Chase Cain and felt much better about life.
10 Crutnacker // Nov 24, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Better check out header 28 (which came up when I clicked through another link on the site) which has the old CJ/LT sign.
11 Steve // Nov 24, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I think the C-J will survive us; the question is, in what form?
Journalist Alex S. Jones, who won a Pulitzer for a book he co-wrote on the Binghams, recently authored another, on the future of newspapering.
In a nutshell, he exhorts them to do what they’ve always done best and been valued for most: tell the readers what they should (and don’t already) know — without fear or favor.
Admittedly, that’s harder to do nowadays, amid shrinking profits, layoffs and lesser resources for labor-intensive investigations — but that would seem to be the best survival strategy. And the Herald-Leader seems to be stepping up to the plate.
As a matter of survival, newspapers need to be more selective in their coverage. I’m sick to death of H1N1. The overwhelming coverage might be justifiable if it were much more lethal than seasonal flu — or remotely as insidious and pervasive as obesity (which should be garnering more coverage than the pig flu).
As the Digital Age progresses, newspapers and blogs alike will become a more hostile home for the ill equipped, and the big boys and girls will be left to do the heavy lifting.
Ideally, more, stellar stories will twinkle in cyberspace — and if newspapers can survive in a new, improved, more interesting and consequential form (as they should), hungry minds will be better fed.
There was time I couldn’t envision the Internet machine formidably competing with the daily paper. But that time has passed.
Blogs, like papers, that are taken seriously are accessible and accountable to critics. And as more print journalists transition to the ‘net, the marketplace of news and information will grow more competitive, credible, robust and healthy.
Editorial writers will have to think thrice before protecting their pets amid a broadening base of believable opinion leaders.
And so maybe there’s hope for a better Fourth Estate.
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all.
12 DangerBoy // Nov 27, 2009 at 11:56 am
It is the very fact that they have to placate to a more wide variety of reader’s interest that dooms them to obsolescence. How and why could someone justify a subscription to a specific site or even worse, physical periodical that may or may not contain whatever in which they’re interested when the virtual equivalent is so easily attainable and most often free of monetary commitment. Any article or writer of any worth that can be found in today’s CJ, and I’m not insisting there are any, can be accessed through a number of different sources on the web. The nature of exclusiveness in newspapers is as dead as print itself.
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