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Old 01-03-2010, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Do you guys get frustrated when you open a link and cannot figure out when the information was written?
Here I am, checking on Amber Alert, clicking on KSAT.com | San Antonio News, San Antonio, Texas News and Local Headlines | KSAT 12 KSAT news page and don't see any display with a date.

Or lets see SAEN: San Antonio, News | mySA.com where is the date??
Maybe is just me, but but I see it quite often... an article/or site, and no date. Why is so?
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Old 01-03-2010, 07:01 PM
 
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No it is not just you, I just did the same thing and thought the same thing. A date is very important maybe someone that can make things happen will see our frustration and make a change!
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Old 01-03-2010, 08:33 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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No it is not just you, I just did the same thing and thought the same thing. A date is very important maybe someone that can make things happen will see our frustration and make a change!
Yes, yes!! Thank you! I was thinking that maybe was just me! The temperature is displayed SO BIG, but not the date! Awwwwwwwww.....
You need to click on single article to see the date, but sometimes I want just scan the headlines first. DATE IS NEEDED!!!
I wonder what other SA C-D members are thinking about it...

Just made a random check:
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.sfgate.com/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
http://www.chron.com/
every news paper HAS a DATE on a front page

Hope someone from SAEN reads our forum...

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Old 01-04-2010, 01:17 PM
 
Location: Tejas
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Yes, I know what you mean, but it isn't as much of a pain for me because I mainly rely on their RSS feed which does include the date and time stamp. If you don't utilize a reader, I recommend giving it a try. I use Firefox, so I rely on Brief to handle my feeds.

Another pet peeve is more general to all news sites, I'll click over from a link to a story and it'll only reference an area of the town. When I go to the top level of the domain, I can only get a city name. A subsequent search leads me to find there are a number of states with the same named city.
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Old 01-04-2010, 02:36 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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I tried the RSS feed and got so many feeds I could not keep up with it.
I like to go to the newspaper webpage and just scan the headlines. If something catch my attention then I click on it and read.
However the date thing should be fixed. Wonder why nobody said anything yet.
I have in my home computer a link to get all the subscribed newspapers headlines. Kinda cute but I forgot about it somehow. I guess I will dig it out now
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Old 01-04-2010, 02:49 PM
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Do you guys get frustrated when you open a link and cannot figure out when the information was written?
Here I am, checking on Amber Alert, clicking on KSAT.com | San Antonio News, San Antonio, Texas News and Local Headlines | KSAT 12 KSAT news page and don't see any display with a date.
I clicked on the current top story at KSAT.com (http://www.ksat.com/news/22121281/detail.html - broken link) and saw:

POSTED: Monday, January 4, 2010
UPDATED: 1:53 pm CST January 4, 2010


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Or lets see SAEN: San Antonio, News | mySA.com where is the date??
Maybe is just me, but but I see it quite often... an article/or site, and no date. Why is so?
Not seeing this issue with stories at mysa.com either. Current top story (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Officials_hope_clock_photo_leads_to_arrest_of_rapi st.html - broken link) there says "Web Posted: 01/04/2010 3:24 CST"

Each story seems to be dated and time-stamped, but you're correct that there's no date and time on the main pages that just list stories.
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Old 01-04-2010, 04:53 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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But recall that the recent thread concerning the so-called nation-high crime rate in San Antonio was actually an article from last May (as noted by mpd33)...so I agree with elnina, it is a irritant...

As a matter of fact, if you go to the same article, you will find it has today's date on it!
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Old 01-04-2010, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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But recall that the recent thread concerning the so-called nation-high crime rate in San Antonio was actually an article from last May (as noted by mpd33)...so I agree with elnina, it is a irritant...

As a matter of fact, if you go to the same article, you will find it has today's date on it!
Aha!!! Now you see what I am talking about...
A date on the front page would do. Then a separate date /time for new/updated story. Does it make sense? Why complicate things? It works for paper editions.
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Old 01-05-2010, 07:32 AM
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But recall that the recent thread concerning the so-called nation-high crime rate in San Antonio was actually an article from last May (as noted by mpd33)...so I agree with elnina, it is a irritant...
This article from that thread's OP has a date below the title and the page has today's date on it.

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As a matter of fact, if you go to the same article, you will find it has today's date on it!
"Last Update: 5/29/2009 11:38 am," also below the title, but I also see today's date on the upper right side of the page.

There is probably a convention in the AP Stylebook (often the ultimate authority about style choices in newsrooms) that a story should have the date and time posted below the title. There is probably also a similar, marketing-driven convention, imposed by people who want to make news web sites look like they are continuously updated and up-to-the-minute fresh, which is leading them to put the current date and time on every page. I doubt that the latter convention is going to go away, since web sites will always be marketing-driven and wanting to appear fresh to justify their existence, so your best course of action is to get used to looking for story dates UNDER the title.
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Old 01-05-2010, 07:41 AM
 
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I think when you go to a News website...It is a Homepage. Mening it is current News being presented. Up to the minute.

Other articles that you can click on will have a date posted stamp. So if you see the Temp posted, that ...right now, and the new stories are that days...if you go to archive, thats when you check past stories.
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