Crazy ‘Correction’ of the day
I know of two newspapers named The Public Opinion. One of them is in Chambersburg, Penn., and the other one is farther west, in Watertown, S.D. Not sure which one ended up publishing this doozy of a correction, or if there’s another paper by the same name elsewhere.
Note: this post has been updated to reflect that the other newspaper named The Public Opinion is in South Dakota, not New York state.
March 7, 2013 - 12:30 PM
IT AMAZES ME THAT THE RT HAS AN IT DEPT THAT IS SO LAY THEY CAN’T CORRECT THE PROBLEM OF NO PARAGRAPH BREAKS IN POSTS ON BLOGS. IT IS ALSO INDICATIVE THAT THE RT MANAGEMENT CARES ZERO ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS AS TO ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE.
YES, ALL CAPS TO ILLUSTRATE THE STUPIDITY OF THE SITUATION.
Excuse me – SO LAZY – too bad we can’t even correct our posts, but then that is another extremely common feature on blogs that is light years beyond the grasp of the RT site.
Did anyone else notice the lack of paragraph breaks in the original post? Just how customer-unfriendly does the RT have to be before people actually care?
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Sure, we can work around it, like I just did. But why should we have to do so? That’s like saying people can ‘work around’ not having health care. Why should we have to? At this point in history, should we have to put up with a supposed news source that is so pathetic as to promote a site that is so disfunctional?
Dan, you’re about the only person employed by the RT that seems to understand the importance of the internet. Could you use your considerable journalistic heft to ‘encourage’ the IT geeks to be less stupid and customer-unfriendly? Or their bosses to at least understand that customers matter?
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The sports bloggers I usually frequent don’t seem to care, I’m hoping you do. here’s a new cause for you to chase, let’s see how you do…
Crooked Road, the problem of the paragraphs has been reported to the feedback people…several times. I am sure they are aware and working on it. Go to the feedback site and they will show you what they are working on.
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At least the site is running and available to us, bugs and all.
#firstworldproblems
Sandi, as I said above, the ‘problem’ is extremely minor in terms of the amount of time expended on correcting it. I exagerrate when I say it will take ten minutes. It would actually take LESS than ten minutes if the RT geeks in the IT dept actually spent ANY time on it. The truth is that they’ve made it #585th or lower on their priority list, and THAT is why it’s not fixed. Sure, lemmings can chant – ‘they love us and are working hard to please us’, but that is a lie.
I WANT TO SEE THE PARAGRAPH PROBLEM FIXED. IT IS SUCH A MINOR ISSUE, YET THE RT CONTINUES TO IGNORE IT WHICH PROVES JUST HOW LITTLE THE RT CARES ABOUT THE CUSTOMER.
When I’m proven wrong – as I will NOT be – I’ll apologize. Until then, after weeks of the same problem, I’m being proven right continually. All the RT geeks in the IT dept have to do is spend ten minutes and fix the problem, but…
THE RT DOESN’T CARE ENOUGH TO ADDRESS THE MOST MINOR CUSTOMER ISSUE. See? Still no paragraph break? How can I be so confident in saying that? Because I know the RT doesn’t care.
Jeez CrookedRoad, this insane hysteria here and on Lindsey’s site are why I hesitate to comment on this blog reformat at all. I hope I live long enough that a lack of “paragraph break” is the biggest challenge I face.
Ok now it’s funny.
crooked road,
Go ahead and vent here all you want. But I hope you realize this is not necessarily the BEST place to complain, in order to get something done. While I do occasionally pass frequently occurring complaints on (especially as they relate to the blog), that is hit or miss, as I have time. Posting the issue you’re having here is definitely not the most efficient way to draw the attention of the computer geeks. Using the feedback tab on the right side of the page is the best way.
Thanks, DC. I’ll avail myself of that, as well as use the opportunity to place the message in as many venues as possible, hopefully to get some ‘insider’ voices to add to the discussion.
get a life people, get a life
For Crooked.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/first-world-problems-read-by-third-world-kids
Crooked road,
Life will go on…Try not to forgot the blog is free.
I enjoy the irony in that CR repeatedly refers to the IT department as “geeks” while blowing a gasket because he’s unable to use paragraph breaks.
Kristen @ 2:08 pm You and me both.
#13 SL, I got the problem solved, incredibly quickly. Like I said. You’re welcome.
As for the two little girls who like to fake faint at the least of discussion, – ‘You’re also welcome…’
Wow, crooked, what happens at your house when someone leaves the toilet seat down?
Nerd? Lazy?? You sound ridiculous harping about non-issues with a new website that is clearly still being tweaked by the RT! Chill out, dude. They are working on it… so people like you won’t continue to blast them with snarky comments before they are even done. Or have you even asked if they were done? Maybe we should ask you; you seem to be the authority with all things RT.
All you posters just don’t get it! EITHER: 1. The entire RT staff doesn’t give a you know what about their many errors and their customers’ concerns; OR 2. They are all too stupid and ignorant to realize that they have problems!
I’ll bet she was thrilled when they ran the correction, with the original story no doubt having occupied prime newspaper real estate while the retraction was buried in the small print with classifieds.
“I’ll bet she was thrilled when they ran the correction, with the original story no doubt having occupied prime newspaper real estate while the retraction was buried in the small print with classifieds.”
–Chuck
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Chuck, you are amazingly consistent. Wrong again!
“Customers” pay. This is free. We’re basically squatters. By should they care? So silly.
Scamuel, we get that it’s a work in progress and that the problems are being worked on. These are blogs, not life or death issues. That you and CR are in such a rage about something so unimportant is both hilarious and pathetic.
Oh good grief, lay off the RT and their staff, they are your hosts and you are a boor!
Paragraphs are working again…
“Paragraphs are working again…”
Testing 1..2..3..
Really Dan. Are you actually going to argue that newspapers devote the same attention to retractions that they give the original wrong story. That is just dishonest but as you say, amazingly consistent.
“Really Dan. Are you actually going to argue that newspapers devote the same attention to retractions that they give the original wrong story. That is just dishonest but as you say, amazingly consistent.”
–Chuck
I’m not arguing that, Chuck. That’s what you’re saying that I’m saying.
It’s obvious from the way the correction is framed that:
1) The error was reported as a “police blotter” item, on an inside page; and
2) Corrections are not necessarily “buried” compared to a police blotter item; and
3) The correction has gotten FAR more attention than the original blotter item ever did.
Even you’ve got to admit #3, Chuck.
It’s worth pointing out the framing of the error, too. If its wording is correct, it was not the newspaper’s fault. The misinformation came from the court. (Although, if that was the case, I’m unsure why the newspaper is apologizing. It’s possible they add that tag to every correction).