Macon Telegraph nixes high school football

ramblinwise1

ramblinwise1

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Got my paper eager to check out the local high school scores and stats and... nothing.... nada... zip. Headline says "go to Macon.com for all your high school football results".

Why am I paying for this paper if everything I want to see is online and now not in print?
 
it probably goes to print b/f scores are in and will likely be in sundays. Why would you not check online?
 
I will, but its just another reason not to buy the print edition. A really dumb move if you ask me on the part of the paper. They are driving people away from print to online but not getting any subscription revenues for online. I bet the scores are in Sunday but I bet actual articles and boxes are not. We'll see.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I will, but its just another reason not to buy the print edition. A really dumb move if you ask me on the part of the paper. They are driving people away from print to online but not getting any subscription revenues for online. I bet the scores are in Sunday but I bet actual articles and boxes are not. We'll see.
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Sorry you feel that way since that paper has been in my opinion very friendly toward GT Yellowjackets when the Atlanta papers used us for outhouse cataloging.

Probably as Lawbee stated the paper had to go to print before the scores were available. So they made it available online instead. Pretty nice of them to do that. It's a whole heap better than my Rome paper will do.
 
who actually reads the paper newspaper anymore?

maybe just old people.
 
I don't think it's as much of a time crunch — they can get scores, boxes, stories back in 45 minutes from a game, so as long as they don't have to be on the press before 10:45, they'll be in good shape (and 10:45 is EARLY for a Friday night deadline) — as it is space. Stories, photos, boxes, etc, will take up a couple of pages or more. And newsprint costs are astronomical these days.
So if you're limited in the amount of room you have in the print edition ... you have no such restriction on the great almighty Internet.

Not being a regular reader of the MT, just what did they have there in today? There's no college football games. No golf major. Warner Robins Little League team is done in Williamsport. There really shouldn't have been anything but HS football in there ... unless they had a system problem and filled it with advances, features, etc, because they had problems getting their own stuff from their files to their pages. Been known to happen.
 
You can blame a lot on the schools. They do not have a SID dept., so someone, usually a volunteer, has to add up the stats and call it in. Then the paper has to do their work. It is a lot harder and time consuming than most realize. Plus, if the home team loses, they are the ones that usually call it in, and they conveniently forget.
 
olgoldandwhite said:
You can blame a lot on the schools. They do not have a SID dept., so someone, usually a volunteer, has to add up the stats and call it in. Then the paper has to do their work. It is a lot harder and time consuming than most realize. Plus, if the home team loses, they are the ones that usually call it in, and they conveniently forget.
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Well aware of all of that. I did that for 3 years myself. Called in the stats and scores to the Telegraph and the Augusta Chronicle. They've been doing it for at least 50 years so its not like its all of a sudden impossible. No manual typesetting like the good old days either. I suspect they don't have night shift anymore in the offices and I think they outsourced the printing so they probably lost control of the deadlines.

By the way, the fact that Coley Harvey does a good job of following the Jackets has nothing to do with this. Not going to cut them slack for this.

What did they print? Coley's articles, David Hale's drippy UGAy articles and the rest wire reports or prewritten articles.
 
I think they are really short of staff. The Braves games do not even make it in my edition. They do have some write ups today, but overall all papers have gone down hill the last few years due to budget cuts. I predict the Saturday edition will not sell as well as it used to. By the way great front page article on RR.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I will, but its just another reason not to buy the print edition. A really dumb move if you ask me on the part of the paper. They are driving people away from print to online but not getting any subscription revenues for online. I bet the scores are in Sunday but I bet actual articles and boxes are not. We'll see.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think subscription revenues even cover the cost of printing and delivery. The revenue has always been from advertizing. In a few years, print papers will be a thing of the past whether we like it or not. The advantages of internet-based news are simply too overwhelming.
 
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