Knoxville News-Sentinel?

[AC]

Merry Christmas, everyone! Greetings from across the ocean. I'm glad to hear that Knoxville has a White Christmas. Enjoy!

I am fascinated, however, by the realization that all 5 major features on the Knoxville News-Sentinel website are about snow, including such riveting news items as "Send us your snow photos" etc.

This is the only newspaper site in the region that I have found that does not feature a real new story foremost and prominently on their site. After bouncing around checking out the regional news, I must say that there is something strangely and sadly infantile about the Knoxnews site. Doesn't our community deserve something a little more than this?

[Raincrow]

My favorite was those fine Christians who've disavowed Santa Claus.

Christmas is otherwise a notoriously slow news day. Double that up with the batten-down-the-hatche mentality snow triggers and it's tough to have anything interesting as breaking news. Except the now even more poignant house fires and highway fatalities.

I'm not excusing it entirely except to point out that Christmas really is not a day many big stories break. The people who can give you the quotes for those stories are rarely quick to answer the phone when they're trying to have a holiday ski trip to Aspen with their mistress. I mean, who wants to interrupt a good time that it took months to finagle?

That's not to say there aren't a thousand stories bearing followups today as well as any other day. I'm sure the nutjobs are making hay of all this in the comments sections below stories about snowmen and slick streets.

[AC]

I understand that, Crow. But somehow, in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Asheville, Nashville and Johnson City, the newpapers have founds other items of interest to share with their readership. And, if I'm not mistaken, they got as much or more snow than Knoxville did, no?
i find this amusing...but in a sad and resigned sort of way.

[pages]

AC, they got *more* snow. Plus, Atlanta's snow was historic. I haven't seen/heard anything first hand, but someone told me when I was at church thing morning that Atlanta hasn't had snow on Christmas since the 1800s. It makes absolutely no sense to me how crazy the media in this town gets about snow. I'll stop bitching now, but, yes, a thousand times, yes, we deserve a better newspaper even on a holiday weekend.

I did read a nice little feature on knoxnews about the guy who owns the company that's doing the Henley Street Bridge job and it looked like there were some nice accompanying stories about the project. I don't have a hand-held version of the paper, so don't know what that looks like off line, but it might have been a larger feature there if the snow hadn't blown it off.

[Hank IV]

I saw this headline in the WaPost today, AC. May interest you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122601180.html

As for KNS they know what their readers and advertisers want. It's just how it is these days.

[AC]

I saw this headline in the WaPost today, AC. May interest you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122601180.html

As for KNS they know what their readers and advertisers want. It's just how it is these days.

Hey, Mark. Hope you've had a nice Christmas. Did you make a snowman?

I hope that article is indeed a sign of things to come. It would be great for ticket prices to come down. We'll see how that plays out.

And, yes, I know. At least, they THINK that's what they want. But is it really? Sometimes I think the newspapers are following the same pattern as the record companies were a few years ago, responding to their challenges in all of the wrong ways and making decisions that actually hasten their demise. Or, sometimes, from the outside looking in, so it seems. But I don't really know. And I hope I'm wrong.

[Hank IV]

Hey, Mark. Hope you've had a nice Christmas. Did you make a snowman?

I hope that article is indeed a sign of things to come. It would be great for ticket prices to come down. We'll see how that plays out.

And, yes, I know. At least, they THINK that's what they want. But is it really? Sometimes I think the newspapers are following the same pattern as the record companies were a few years ago, responding to their challenges in all of the wrong ways and making decisions that actually hasten their demise. Or, sometimes, from the outside looking in, so it seems. But I don't really know. And I hope I'm wrong.

Both seem endangered, for sure. Snowman? Nah. Kept logs on the fire and did some long overdue aquarium maintenance. Life in the fast lane. Have a good vacation.

[xm]

What I find interesting about the Sun. paper is the front page only tells you what to look for on the other pages. What's up with that? Let's keep important news on the front page and we will see the other stories as we read the paper.

[Hayduke]

Even the editorial on the Midway scam was a snow job.

[KO]

I was distressed to see The Tennessean when I was in Nashville over the holidays. On both Christmas Eve and Christmas day the paper was a sad shell of its former self. The whole thing was as thin as I remember one section being when I lived there many moons ago. Sad.