02-08-2005, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: T.O.
Posts: 20,828
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Originally Posted by jseal
Lilith,
I, like you, now use electronic sources for my news. I also read the paper when time allows. The radio I listen to broadcasts highlights each half hour.
It is amusing to listen to the radio announcer read the same words which lead a newspaper article.
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I'm exactly like jseal save for that second paragraph. As a former print reporter, I did not find it amusing to hear my lovingly-crafted lead read by a radio reporter. In one small town I worked, I would put in 60+ hours a week getting stories, colour, etc. from the community. I asked a radio reporter how much she worked and she gave some ridiculously low hours (far less than 40).
I guess you don't have to work much if YOU'RE JUST READING STORIES FROM THE PAPER!
The stupid thing is, I have written for radio and it's a different style altogether -- simpler, crisper. To hear her reading my words meant for print! That was criminal in and of itself! 
I digress.
Like Lilith, I like to sit for quite some time and enjoy the paper so it doesn't happen everyday. As PF can attest, Toronto is likely the most competitive newspaper city in North America and the lengths they all go to impress consumers makes for wonderful newspaper design.
We have four dailies and they also put out free papers for the subways so we're not hurting for opinion, news & food for thought.
<sigh> I love this city.
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