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I'm not arguing your overall point. I couldn't even if I wanted to. There's empirical evidence that you have that I couldn't refute. I don't understand why this was a story to begin with. A walk-on becomes a story if he earns a scholarship, does something on the field or has a back story that is just too good to pass up. None of those apply in this case. In my opinion.Originally Posted by Dawg06
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Why do they even cover NWST? Do they have a HUGE alumni/fanbase in Shreveport?
NWST fans are nowhere to be found in Shreveport.
The Times doesn't really cover NWST anymore since their last round of layoffs several months ago when they laid off their part-time beat writer. They pretty much just run NWST press releases as "staff reports" now. Ferrell occasionally writes a story about them. Jimmy may if they offer free food at an event.
Take the print edition out of it. Now help me understand.
Why are they not immediately posting content online from Tech's beat writer who works for the same company and is often posting those stories while in Ruston just 70 miles away? Why is there no Louisiana Tech tab within the sports section of their website? What's the cost in that? Why are they editing down the content they do post online? They're actually spending time and effort to remove content that would be of interest to their readers. Why?
It seems incredibly idiotic to me. And quite frankly the type of thing Gannett doesn't want to have to deal with right now - editors who appear to be allowing personal biases and grudges to interfere with the bottom line. And trust me there are journalists looking for work right now who would be more than happy to take their place.
Yep. I don't know how Ferrell and Lang get away with all this crap.
After I asked them to put the Tech tab back after they deleted it and combined Tech with all the other colleges in the region, their response was that "there wasn't any room for it, nor demand for Tech coverage." Yeah right.
They've since added a Roy Lang Show tab, and there hasn't been an episode in over a year because nobody cares what he thinks. They added a tab for the Best of Preps, which is just a 1 day annual event and the 3rd high school tab (High School, Hiller's High School Hits, Best of Preps). I just noticed the Golf tab for the first time today. They also added one for the Mudbugs a few months ago. Also gotta love their separate tabs for the Cowboys and Saints, NFL teams located several hours away.
Anybody who spends any time in Shreveport-Bossier these days will tell you that Tech support in the area is rivaling LSU, and there's no #3 school in the area.
In the last 4 years during this very successful era of Tech sports, Times columnist Roy Lang has only written like 3 articles about Tech, a couple about our WBB coaches and one about Dixon when the Cowboys played the Ravens, since he slammed Tech for the bowl fiasco.
It's asinine how The Times treats Tech.
The Sunday Times has an entire LSU section during football season...Very good article/post by Nico Van Thyn. It really makes you wonder about the future of "local" news. Yes, the internet is great for reading national and world news. But where does one go to read about local elections, local sports, or what's happening at the local courthouse, etc...if local newspapers are out of business?
We all know that sports media is experiencing a purge. ESPN is laying off thousands and local newspapers are no longer reporting game scores and games stories. But we'll know that the Shreveport Times is really serious about downsizing when they stick to their self-imposed 7 PM copy/news deadline during football season. Because that would result in no LSU score or LSU game story appearing in the Sunday morning edition.
Check this out: The Shreveport Times twitter account has basically just become a Roy Lang III retweet machine.
https://twitter.com/shreveporttimes Pathetic.
How does their publisher and owner allow this crap to happen?
The Shreveport Times may be the worst newspaper in the country.
Ferrell and Lang are dinosaurs that need to be shown the door. Some things (and people) just aren't worth saving. It's time to pass the baton to a new generation.
Just to show you how lax things are . . . in Thursday's News-Star they printed the crossword/Dear Abby page twice: B-4 and C-4 in the online edition. They finally stopped delivery of my dead-tree edition (five months after I canceled to go online only), so I don't know if that error was committed there.
The Iowa layout center slipped one by the proofing editor(s) back in Louisiana.
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I have often wondered if La Tech journalism department ( do we have one?) could start an online publication about Tech. Maybe a small fee to read BUT it will prepare future journalist grads for todays way of distributing information. Things at Tech are incredible right now and I have seen a couple of articles in Times written by "la tech "media... BBB does great job of linking articles but why not newsletter/paper?
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The Tech Talk is at least a decade behind the times.
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