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Re: “Meals Tax Proposal, Little Nickel Opening and More”
Realist, I was half messing with you. And I get correcting mistakes when there are factual errors. But a brief glance at the Style masthead shows an incredibly tiny staff. Looks like one editor, one copyeditor, and one leisures editor (guess thats food). That's for 40-50 pages of content each week plus extra online stuff? I think the question is why aren't there MORE mistakes? I don't know what you do for a living, but how would you fare if you had no help and all your daily work was doublechecked by 60 thousand people or whatever each day (probably more online)? I bet you would become empathetic real quick ... again, what did you expect for not paying one red cent? What a thankless job.
Journalism is incredibly hard. Crazy hours, little pay, and nothing but grief from trolls, idealogues. People who can't tell the difference between opinion pieces and reporting -- or objective journalism and advocacy journalism. Ranting, self-righteous online zealots who think that silencing any dissenting opinion is the way to go, instead of civilized debate, or actually communicating? I know historians who argue that the word police is how fascism really starts, slowly and with good intentions. But I digress
Realist to your point: I think the days of super clean copy are over. Even the New Yorker and New York Times regularly make mistakes these days. Staffs has been decimated -- thanks largely to the internet and todays big tech monopolies controlling future advertising revenue online, playing with algorithms to control what we see and selling our info to make their billions. At least journalists have some code of ethics and are providing a public service in the interest of our communities.
For that reason alone, I think people should always support their community journalism in all forms - radio, print, whatever. As long as its honest and has integrity. These people work hard. My sister was a longtime journalist and still freelances some. I've seen the level of commitment and passion it takes up close.
Instead of trying to call out Style for a minor type-O, maybe you should be out agitating for a free press? Since you clearly hate the quality of the stuff you do spend your time reading .... Like maybe we should take some of our tax dollars from our bloated military and put them in the fourth estate. SINCE JOURNALISM IS ESSENTIAL TO DEMOCRACY. Kind of like the BBC in England. Id happily pay more for journalism that didn't have to rely on advertising (or you paying), so papers could have full staffs and better paid reporters.
IN fact, lets better pay journalists and teachers, you know the jobs that actually give back to society and shape our future -- then Im sure we'd see the quality go up ... and maybe, just maybe, the country would have less ignorance, or people who are proud to be stupid.
Idiocracy is coming. And it's going to be way more painful than a type-o.
Re: “Meals Tax Proposal, Little Nickel Opening and More”
OMG, "Realist" you found a type-o. A missing J in June. Impressive.
Clearly, you must know a lot about "editing" in today's understaffed newsrooms cranking out content that you don't have to pay a cent for .... A missing J!!! OMG, how would anyone have figured out the DATE??? Could it be Mune 30th? Dune 30th? Zune 30th?
You are a real American hero, sir, for pointing out this mistake. You should feel so proud of yourself. Wow. Get some rest, you earned it.
Re: “The Valentine Explores the Diversity of the Latino Experience in Richmond”
Good point. See today's New York Times headline: "Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/poli…
Re: “The Perfect Hipster Stocking Stuffer Has Arrived”
Poor reading comprehension skills, "native richmonder?"
Re: “The Perfect Hipster Stocking Stuffer Has Arrived”
I read that as sarcasm . . . Clearly, "hipster" still has meaning or whiners like UGH wouldn't be crying about it. Probably offended by the Pikachu jab too.
I imagine that catering to the 24-7 needs of faux-news-hungry complainers is indeed work for the lazy. Or maybe a masochist.
Re: “Interview: Hannibal Buress Discusses His Next Movie and Takes on Confederate Statues”
There is a tradition of comedians talking about these statues, one of the defining features of Richmond. And it's an issue that has generated plenty controversy recently around Virginia. The great comedian Robin Williams called them a nice collection of "second place trophies" during his last appearance here. Don't get hung up on the online headline, which is different from print: It's totally reasonable to ask an African-American comedian this question when talking about this city and it's characteristics. This is a subject many comedians seize on when visiting.
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Re: “Meals Tax Proposal, Little Nickel Opening and More”
hey we have socialism for "too big to fail" Wall Street, they seem to be doing fine.
we subsidize the corn industry, so we can have cheap-ass McDonalds burgers and sodas.
Guess its all in your priorities.