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Related: The Enquirer endorsed Romney on Oct. 28.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Cincinnati | In Romney error, Twitter's megaphone
Related: The Enquirer endorsed Romney on Oct. 28.
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Journalism 101: Use X's, not numbers, in dummy type.
ReplyDeleteBut I keep forgetting, J-101 is advanced stuff for anything supervised by Carolyn Washburn.
Cincinnati.com, your election authority!
ReplyDeleteGreat sales pitch for the paywall, Washburn.
As of now, their readers are seeing these as the top 3 on their list of "most popular" stories:
ReplyDelete1) "Removed"
2) correction and apology
3) "Removed"
On a day when tens of thousands of extra eyes will be on their web site.
I cannot believe Washburn still has a job after mistake after mistske after mistake
ReplyDeleteI can't believe someone misspells "mistake" while complaining about mistakes. To err is human, to forgive is no longer in many people's vocabularies.
ReplyDeleteThe Wall Street Journal is now speculating -- without any proof -- that a stock market rally this morning may have been spurred by the erroneous Enquirer report.
ReplyDeleteThat would be due to investors viewing Romney as more Wall Street-friendly, the WSJ says.
Bravo Carolyn. Another example of your inept leadership.
ReplyDeleteThe example starts at the top.
Bravo.
That info just repeated on Limbaugh radio show.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant in its Gannettoid stupidity. Biggest reporting day in four years, and trip over your chewed cud.
Dim-wits. Bozos. Fools.
Cinncy's website seems to be run by extreme incompetents. It either fails to update stories or get lots of error riddled copy in. Now this. WTF is going on here? Why isnt anyone urging it be fixed? Why is no one held accountable for this folly? Is someone untouchable or friends with Dickey?
ReplyDelete1:52, forgive, but dont forget. This mistake is horrible. If you are going to screw up numbers reorting results in the keyest of key swing states, you have no business working here and either should whoever put you in a position of responsibility. The buck stops somewhere, pal, unless you work for Gannett.
ReplyDeleteWithin Gannett blog, a sudden affinity for New York Times-style headlines.
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ReplyDeleteWonder how long before corporate comes to visit. lmao.
ReplyDelete4:42 In a reader's comment, a mostly correct observation
ReplyDelete(In fact, I've been doing this since Day 1.)
I know. I just couldn't resist the poke in the ribs.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to this blog, there is just one thing to remember.
ReplyDeleteJim fought Full Tard.
And Full Tard won!!!
One can only hope Cinncy gets its act together soon.
ReplyDeletePRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!!!!
ReplyDeleteDickey, time to change the administration in Cinncinnati. I hear Susie Ellwood is tanned,rested and ready.
ReplyDeleteSooo----I'm sitting here at 6 a.m. On post election morning, trying to read the Cincy paper online stories. WTF. The story pulled from USA Today has holes and missing words and, and......??? all over the place. This paper is every bit as chaotic and messed up as my voting experience was last night in Hamilton County, Ohio.
ReplyDeleteWhen Washburn moderated the Iowa debate, Charles Krauthammer called it "the worst debate in western history."
ReplyDeleteShe's running the Enquirer just as efficiently.
Do you see a pattern here?
The real question is why the dummy chart stayed up for nearly NINE hours, with a link from the cincinnati.com cover, from approximately 2AM to nearly 11:30.
ReplyDeleteApparently Washburn and the crony she put in charge of digital are just two of the people not looking at their own web site. Maybe CW couldn't take her eyes off that large photo of herself on the election day web cover.
Don't forget it was Washburn who chose to lay off the most experienced people in digital, which is now part of an age discrimination lawsuit.
On the most important news day of the year, she and her planning team had an intern working alone on early web updates, with no monitoring in the morning.
Paywall, anybody?
That place is a joke. If Gannett knew its own interests, it would have made a management change long ago.
To top it off last night, the Enquirer, a major newspaper in a key swing state that could have been critical in the election, puts lead story up on its web site touting a revealing story about where the candidates like to eat when they are in Cincinnati. Please! Can this lunacy stop? It's like someone left the door open to the asylum and the inmates found refuge in the newsroom. The story was probably assigned by Engebrecht or Hamilton and viewed as cutting edge.
ReplyDeleteHere's a cool graphic.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/11/06/Fake-Election-Stats-Showed-Romney-Ahead-in-Ohio.aspx#page1
From Washburn's post-election memo to staff:
ReplyDelete"On the day itself, print and online was well planned and organized. Flow was great. Content smart."
Since she oversees planning, organization and content, I suspect this memo wasn't written for the staff. Was MB copied?
ReplyDeleteGood flow, though!
Check out this example of hard-hitting election coverage from the Enquirer.
ReplyDeleteThat's not a blatant commercial at all.
1:49 p.m. Don't know how she could write that with a straight face. Would love to hear from staff how it really went and how they feel about the big screw up and dumb placement of stories on web.
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ReplyDeleteHere's your answer 3:15 and it shows that what Buchanan has done is not pretty:
ReplyDeleteENQUIRER, SUN DLY 262,876
ENQUIRER, AVG M (M-F) DLY 132,076
ENQUIRER, SAT M DLY 145,610
http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp
Is it true Washburn has been order to corporate for a dressing down?
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