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Old 12-08-2008, 06:20 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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So is it just me, or is the reporting by The Chronicle absolutely terrible? Are first year journalism students writing their news stories?

Read this story and please tell me if it is as poorly written as I think it is.

I read the story but I still don't know exactly what happened. And there are strange and jarring additions to the story, like this sentence:

"Her immediate concern was for the safety of a daughter, who had chosen precisely that moment to pull into the family driveway."

And what difference does it make that the grieving family members drive "late-model vehicles?"

End of rant.
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Old 12-08-2008, 06:31 PM
 
Location: where nothin ever grows. no rain or rivers flow, TX
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he just forgot to take off his mystery novel writing hat
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Old 12-08-2008, 06:42 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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You are so right. Well for a newspaper, you are supposed to write at a 7th grade level in word choice and simplicity of the article and getting to the facts. Words like jaunty shouldn't be in there. Could be a student who is interning or an editor who isn't really paying attention - just trying to make a deadline. The story is not newspaper material but more of a short story.
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Old 12-08-2008, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX (Bellaire)
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"Late model vehicle" means a vehicle weighing 8,000 pounds or less, manufactured in the current model year or the 5 model years immediately preceding the current model year, or, if over 8,000 pounds, a vehicle manufactured in the current model year or the 15 model years immediately preceding the current model year.

I wasn't for sure on the exact definition so I looked it up. The more you know..
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Old 12-08-2008, 07:18 PM
 
Location: ✶✶✶✶
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Journalism? What's that? I thought everyone just read blogs and watched cable TV infotainment nowadays.
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Old 12-08-2008, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Chronicle cant even spell good or do no grammar. And Fact checking is whack.
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Old 12-08-2008, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Houston
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that's the problem with only having one major newspaper in the 4th largest city in the country.
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Old 12-08-2008, 07:36 PM
 
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that's the problem with only having one major newspaper in the 4th largest city in the country.
If you ask me, the wrong paper shut down back in '95...

Print journalism is history. We're pretty much speaking ill of the dead here. Nobody cares, and neither do the paper publishers. They'll put out crap as long as it's profitable.
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Old 12-08-2008, 08:23 PM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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If you ask me, the wrong paper shut down back in '95...
I miss the Post. It was always my favorite...
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Old 12-08-2008, 08:35 PM
 
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So is it just me, or is the reporting by The Chronicle absolutely terrible? Are first year journalism students writing their news stories?

Read this story and please tell me if it is as poorly written as I think it is.
I can't speak to this article, but newsrooms are being gutted. Every major newspaper company in the country is losing money. Copy editors are getting laid off left and right. My guess is that you should get used to it, because circulation (and revenues) are tailing off due to more and more people getting their news for free off the internet.
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