Chris Durant and Kimberly Wear outside Times-Standard headquarters this morning. Photo: Al Eisenstadt.
The war may not be over, but the
Eureka Reporter
‘s
big announcement
this morning is pretty much
as expected
— a five-day-per-week publishing schedule and a bumped-up website. The days of
fancy paper
are long gone.
Can the
ER
make it on its own? We’re going to find out.
Meanwhile, note the
balls-out editorial
in today’s
Times-Standard
, which unless I’m mistaken takes the
Tom Herman and John Campbell conflict-of-interest cases
even farther than the Humboldt Watershed Council does.
This article appears in Rural and Rebellious.
1. The ER fades to black.
2. Herman and Campbell give it up.
3. Rob and Cherie re-locate.
Geez… the ER sure wants a lot of personal info just to receive the ePaper.
So what was born of a slightly unhinged tycoon’s desire to “destroy” (an operative word in his lexicon) the Times-Standard more or less over not endorsing his wife for mayor in ’02 now sees the beginning of the end, when it becomes clear that having a high-overhead newsroom cannot fill the coffers with money nor the soul with unfettered bliss. Better to just hold on to the press in Fairhaven and just have a website, which, appropriately is how the whole ephemera that is, or was, the Eureka Reporter came into this world anyhow.
Yeah, I noticed that. Guess moving into the world of the internet includes gathering a detailed list of readers.
I filled out the form, but I refused to answer the question about tattoos and birthmarks.
What was the point of asking if I had fasted for at least 12 hours before filling out the online form?
-boy
Hello. My name’s Garrett Albright, and I am the lead programmer for the new ER site as a contractor through Precision Intermedia.
With regards to the amount of personal data required to read the ePaper, the reason for that is that they want to be able to “count” each ePaper reader as a regular subscriber. Thus, the information requested is the same info that you’d be asked for if you called up the TS and asked to subscribe. We did this fully realizing that some people would just fill out bogus information, but so far, the vast majority of people seem to not be doing that.
I can’t speak on the subject of the reduced coverage of the print edition, but I can guarantee that there’s a lot more cool things in store for the web site, far beyond the ePaper.
Sorry, but I gave bogus information
oops