Am I seeing double, or is the Arizona Daily Star now publishing the exact same stories two days apart? For instance, this story about a new Italian restaurant ran Thursday, Sept. 1, and this story about the same Italian restaurant ran Saturday, Sept. 3.
I know cutbacks have made things difficult at the Star, and I honestly feel terrible for those people right now. But printing the same story two day apart – even if it is just online, which I’m not sure of because like thousands of others I dropped my subscription years ago – is not going to win the newspaper any new fans.
(As a side note, if people want lots of non-recycled food news, they can just check in here from time to time anyway.)
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2011.
“(As a side note, if people want lots of non-recycled food news, they can just check in here from time to time anyway.)”–But what if we want non-recycled food news without annoying pop-up ads? Where do we go then?
Usually when the same information appears repeatedly in a newspaper, we call it advertising. What! Advertising masquerading as hard news in the Arizona Daily Star! Who can stop this travesty? This is a job for Josh Brodesky! Go get ‘em Josh.
The worst part is that the Star did it again today. This time they just removed the words “next week” from the first paragraph of a story from Sept. 1 and ran it again today. The worst part is it’s just a rewritten press release about a Chinese food festival; the PR people sent one to me, too. Egads.