The Courier-Journal in Louisville suffered more delays in printing today's edition, a reader tells me early this morning. The first press started 75 minutes late, this reader says, and the second press's run for the Southern Indiana edition was late as well. "Should have been on trucks over an hour ago,'' my reader says.These reported delays followed a week of similar press problems, all of which followed last weekend's disastrous total press failure on the biggest-circulation day of the year: the Kentucky Derby edition. The C-J got that edition out, plus Monday's, only by turning to its backup: Gannett's Indianapolis Star, 115 miles away. That prompted Publisher Arnie Garson to hold a press conference, followed by stinging criticism, including a call for a fuller explanation of what went wrong.
I don't know whether any of this explains the strange entry in the Newseum's database of Gannett front pages this morning. In place of the C-J's Page One, I found only a full-page advertisement (inset, above; bigger view).
What the heck???? How could that have gotten on the site? I gotta laugh!
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, you either have to upload via ftp or e-mail a copy of your front page to the Newseum. Some overworked exhausted night-shift late-news copy editor probably just clicked on the wrong file.
ReplyDeleteOh my. How sad. I feel for the poor overworked person who will prbably have to take the blame for that.
ReplyDeleteI laugh at the stupid person who did that. Posting to the Newseum is not an important part of the job, so claiming overwork doesn't cut it.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably another person in the group who should have been fired years ago.
7:23 pm: As someone who has worked late duty on a copydesk, I can assure you that mistakes like this happen through overwork, and not carelessness.
ReplyDeleteWhile it may not be an important task, I can well imagine the shit flowing downhill, after a publisher complains about "why our page one isn't at the Newseum."
I usually don't attack people personally, but I will this time. Fuck you 7:23 PM.
ReplyDeleteI guess the real question is this: It's now Sunday evening and nobody has corrected the mistake. Now that's sad.
ReplyDeleteThe people here who are getting pissed about the criticism of the person who messed up the Newseum post must be the same people who long for the days when all the computers get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteWe're in an Internet world, people. Can't post a bad link and expect to dismiss it as being overworked. Do it right or GTFO.