Not true - there are TWO instances of original reporting on the front page now (and by “original reporting”, I mean, “I walked past a sign and made fun of it later.”)
I hereby move that the Ass Arbor News be rated ever so slightly higher than worthless, so that it may be included in the overrated aspects of your town.
Those people can’t proofread their way out of a paper bag. One recent story discussed how a resident wasn’t “phased” by recent storms.
And I’ve heard of a Wall of Shame within the bowels of another local publication that is totally and completely papered floor to ceiling with printed-out examples of the frequent and egregious mistakes made by the News. Every publication makes mistakes, but some have proofreaders.
For all of its faults, the Ann Arbor News is actually the best local daily paper of any of the places I have lived. Try reading, say, the Lansing State Journal if you don’t believe me. E.g., one election year, the State Journal decided not to bother reporting on races for county offices.
Obviously my bias as a politico is to judge papers by their reporting on local government and so on.
I know, I know, it’s that tired old Ann Arborite habit (often justly mocked by AAIO) to defend this town by pointing out that other places are even WORSE off.
But for a newspaper to report on local issues and local politics is labor intensive, hence expensive, and most papers have cut it to the absolute minimum. For some reason, the Ann Arbor News has resisted this trend.
When my parents were students at MSU in the early ’80s, the paper in Lansing was known as the ‘State Urinal’. . . . The AAN doesn’t seem quite that bad.
The reason the News is funny isn’t that it’s so much worse than other small-town newspapers. It’s funny because you would expect a far better paper in a town where the locals make such a big deal of how literate and sophisticated they are.
hey, give them a break! the paper isn’t properly proofread because the staff is too busy working in ohio as scabs.
can you blame them for having priorities?
You should just call yourself Ann Arbor News is overrated.com. All you ever talk about is what you read in the paper.
posted by Anonymous on June 17th, 2005 at 12:45 pmNot true - there are TWO instances of original reporting on the front page now (and by “original reporting”, I mean, “I walked past a sign and made fun of it later.”)
posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 17th, 2005 at 1:04 pmHa ha, true. I like your quirky, first-person observations better.
posted by Anonymous on June 17th, 2005 at 1:14 pmExcept that for the A2 News to be overrated, someone would have had to rated it higher than “worthless” in the first place.
posted by Anonymous on June 17th, 2005 at 1:49 pmI hereby move that the Ass Arbor News be rated ever so slightly higher than worthless, so that it may be included in the overrated aspects of your town.
posted by Morbidly Midwestern on June 17th, 2005 at 7:00 pmThose people can’t proofread their way out of a paper bag. One recent story discussed how a resident wasn’t “phased” by recent storms.
And I’ve heard of a Wall of Shame within the bowels of another local publication that is totally and completely papered floor to ceiling with printed-out examples of the frequent and egregious mistakes made by the News. Every publication makes mistakes, but some have proofreaders.
posted by newt on June 17th, 2005 at 8:23 pmFor all of its faults, the Ann Arbor News is actually the best local daily paper of any of the places I have lived. Try reading, say, the Lansing State Journal if you don’t believe me. E.g., one election year, the State Journal decided not to bother reporting on races for county offices.
Obviously my bias as a politico is to judge papers by their reporting on local government and so on.
I know, I know, it’s that tired old Ann Arborite habit (often justly mocked by AAIO) to defend this town by pointing out that other places are even WORSE off.
But for a newspaper to report on local issues and local politics is labor intensive, hence expensive, and most papers have cut it to the absolute minimum. For some reason, the Ann Arbor News has resisted this trend.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on June 17th, 2005 at 9:12 pmWhen my parents were students at MSU in the early ’80s, the paper in Lansing was known as the ‘State Urinal’. . . . The AAN doesn’t seem quite that bad.
Yet.
posted by [libcat] on June 18th, 2005 at 1:07 amThe reason the News is funny isn’t that it’s so much worse than other small-town newspapers. It’s funny because you would expect a far better paper in a town where the locals make such a big deal of how literate and sophisticated they are.
posted by Nick on June 18th, 2005 at 1:01 pmYep. But you can’t really fault them for misspelling that ridiculous of a name.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 18th, 2005 at 2:17 pmhey, give them a break! the paper isn’t properly proofread because the staff is too busy
posted by dan faichney on June 19th, 2005 at 1:16 pmworking in ohio as scabs.
can you blame them for having priorities?