Comments on: How Long Will the Daily Progress Last as Is?

By: The Schilling Show Blog » Daily Progress can’t take the heat; censors online speech

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:40:11 +0000

[...] critic), McGregor McCance, has resorted to online censorship in order to shield from criticism the faltering newspaper’s marginal [...]

By: davez

davez — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:43:20 +0000

Yea, Jim Duncan’s right, and this is something the editors at the DP understand. Unfortunately, their hands are largely tied by a group of knuckleheads in Richmond who can’t see beyond the next quarterly earnings report.
All that said, unlike a lot of big metro dailies, the DP still makes money, so don’t look for them to close up shop anytime too too soon.

By: otterdung

otterdung — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:04:19 +0000

you’re right, oniss: i suspect you know me better than i know myself. perhaps i need someone significantly younger who is not terribly bright and has large breasts that will do what i tell her? got anyone in mind?

/cougars: OUT.; PVCC students: IN.

By: oniss

oniss — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:06:44 +0000

I’m guessing that you don’t nee-eed someone older & wiser telling you what to do. I think you just like it that way.

By: otterdung

otterdung — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:43:28 +0000

brilliant, oniss. Sorry, i’m just sixteen going on seventeen and need someone older and wiser telling me what to do. {how does one ‘brutally’ hunt? do warehouses have attics?}

By: oniss

oniss — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:30:35 +0000

“Waaaa-waaaa” is the end of the first act: clearly you didn’t return after intermission to see the family (now missing tutor Annie Sullivan) brutally hunted by Nazis & hiding in a warehouse attic. Plus the audience gets to vote for the ending: a) sent off to a concentration camp or b) escaping over the mountains to a singing career in America.

By: otterdung

otterdung — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:17:20 +0000

that’s real cool. i didn’t know she could write when she was still young, and i can’t even imagine what the pictures must be like (did she snap them, draw them, or were they given to her and described?)

i guess i only read the part about her learning to say ‘Waaaaa-Waaaaa’ near the well-pump, and to make marks in her nurse’s hand with her fingers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:02:08 +0000

True enough.

You’re absolutely right – they’re an excellent resource. (Not to mention having more in-depth coverage than a paper like the DP.) My only question is with the business model. I think the jury is still out on whether sites like that (and the coverage they provide) will generate enough money (and readers and content and advertising and everything else) to survive. I hope they do.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:51:20 +0000

Totally agree about cville tomorrow (see @3 above). They are very good. I’ve learned a LOT about local issues from them. Their podcast thingies are, while sometimes boring, very helpful.

By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:46:14 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

The DP and other “locals” need to read the book Made to Stick – http://www.madetostick.com/ – specifically the chapter that discusses the local newspaper in North Carolina. In it the publisher explains why his paper was successful – it was local. Local, local, local

I get my national/international news from the WSJ, Twitter, Google, etc. etc. I don’t want to read about Iran in the Daily Progress. I want to read about local sports, news, politics, etc.

For instance, I bought the Daily Progress after the cvillepiedown to see if the picture of my daughter made it to print (incidentally, it was a great picture that Matthew Rosenberg took)

For local news and politics, Charlottesville tomorrow beats the heck out of all other local outlets – their content, their archiving, the volume and quality …