[Vision2020] local media

[Tim Lohrmann]

--- Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:23:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] local media
> To: bill london <london@moscow.com>
> 
> Bill,
>      I believe comparing the Palouse coverage(or
> anything else)from the LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE'S
> Saturday edition to the Daily News' Saturday edition
> is really comparing kiwis to kumquats. This edition
> comparison is likely the ONLY one in which the Daily
> News comes out ahead. 
>      The DAILY NEWS Sat. edition is actually their
> Weekend edition, the biggest and most expensive
> product they produce. Then on Sunday they take the
> day off.
>  
>     On the other hand, the LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE
> Saturday edition is often the skimpiest paper the
> Morning Tribune puts out. It's produced while many
> on the staff are working on THEIR feature product
that comes out on Sunday morning. I'm sure the LMT
Sun. edition will cover the story you mention. 

>     That said however, even though I've been reading
> the LMT for a while, that I like a newspaper in the
> early morning, and that I like the LMT's editorial
> page and focus on letters to the editor, I would
> gladly buy a WEEKEND ONLY subscription to the DAILY
> NEWS. I've never understood why they don't offer
> such a thing. 
>     Tim L. 
> 
> 
> --- bill london <london@moscow.com> wrote:
> > We do not often get the chance to directly compare
> > the timeliness of the 
> > reporting in the two local newspapers--the Daily
> > News and Lewiston 
> > Tribune.  One is an afternoon paper that benefits
> > from getting to report 
> > on events that break during the morning, and the
> > other is a morning 
> > paper that gets all the afternoon breaks.
> > The exception is for news that is announced on
> > Friday afternoon.  Both 
> > papers print on Friday night for Saturday AM
> > delivery.
> > And in the latest comparison, the Daily News won.
> > Today's Daily News included two in-depth stories
> by
> > Ted McDonough on the 
> > successful environmental appeal of the Highway 95
> > Paradise Ridge route. 
> > That's a big story with serious impact on the
> entire
> > region.  The 
> > Tribune did not mention it at all.
> > It sure seems to me that Palouse coverage by the
> > Tribune is going 
> > downhill, and jumpstarted by the new publisher,
> the
> > Daily News is 
> > getting much better.
> > BL
> > 
> >
>
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