Friday, November 30, 2007

How crock pots may save daily newspapers

The little slow cooker is clicking at The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. I couldn't make up this News Watch article if I tried.

5 comments:

  1. "The crock-pot recipes are permanently anchored on the Moms site because we’ve gotten so many requests, and additions come almost every week."

    Wow! Who'da thunk it! The newspaper thinks crock pot recipes are NEWS!

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  2. Funny crock pot story now that you have put in in context.

    Question: I received a news alert from usatoday.com concerning Evel Knievel's passing with a link to find out more. I clicked and refreshed and refreshed and waited... Wouldn't you think that a story would be on the page about Evel the sent link goes too when some silly person like me receives it? Or, can that just be posted any time after the link is sent?

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  3. Sorry, the Evel story is now on usatoday.com. It took a while (ok, 5-10 minutes) after the alert but still, not the lede story. Makes me wonder why it was worth a breaking news alert if it wasn't worth having the story posted at the time the alert was received AND why those of us that pay for text messages get an alert if is isn't the lede. Seems the alert feature isn't such a feature.

    Might they be having a problem?

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  4. Very strange, that. Thanks for pointing it out.

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  5. Crock pot recipies are news you can use -- to get fat!

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