Third or 4th page very small article. Much more coverage given to what OU football athletes are doing with their spare time at bowl site. Hines at least was there. Maybe there will be a huge article with photos tomorrow.....Oh wait OU bowl game is tonight....... Oh forget it. TU is not important to our city anyway............. Tulsa World............
Tulsa World Coverage of Tulsa's biggest upset in years
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Time for TU to publicly lambaste the World. Call 'em out and only say "they are really disappointing."
Poor TU coverage is why I quit taking the Tulsa World some years ago. As a former Tulsa World paperboy in the mid 60's this was a very hard decision to make.
I wasn't a paper boy, but I gave up on them 15 years ago. Their coverage just continues to be awful and I don't mean just TU. I won't click on their links or read their stories. The only time I ever here them talked about is on here.
Weird that taking the local out or the local paper hurt them.
I know it sucks. And it certainly sucks for our student-athletes. But I still support local journalism. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about all the hillbillies in their Wal-Mart OU and OSU t-shirts who do the majority of clicking on tulsaworld.com.
I'm curious where some of you get your local news from, especially if you haven't read a Tulsa World in 10 years. If there was a quadruple homicide down the street from you, would the 30-second sound byte on Fox23 be enough for you? Or is the gossip on your neighborhood facebook page enough? Does Rippin have a tin-foil weekly newsletter I'm unaware of?
I'm curious where some of you get your local news from, especially if you haven't read a Tulsa World in 10 years. If there was a quadruple homicide down the street from you, would the 30-second sound byte on Fox23 be enough for you? Or is the gossip on your neighborhood facebook page enough? Does Rippin have a tin-foil weekly newsletter I'm unaware of?
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LEC is right. It’s a struggling industry. There are a lot of complex issues to untangle. But it doesn’t excuse where they put it in the print edition, which was probably finished at 10:30 pm last night.
I only read the paper through the web site. They actually put it up as a major breaking news story last night. It has changed so much from even 10 years ago. They just have fewer people to cover the news. A lot of major things don’t get covered as a direct result. We should be concerned about that.
I only read the paper through the web site. They actually put it up as a major breaking news story last night. It has changed so much from even 10 years ago. They just have fewer people to cover the news. A lot of major things don’t get covered as a direct result. We should be concerned about that.
The big assumption here is that the local news is covered by them. There is nothing local about the Tulsa World, not its ownership or the focus of its coverage, sports is just the easiest way to see that.
Thunder, OSU, OU pretty much any national story. Even their high school coverage slipped from the past. TU is an after thought of a oh yeah don't forget and ORU might as well not even exist.
Politics are similar, major news or breaking news is all about the state or a national issue. It really shouldn't surprise anyone, certainly not the national interests now controlling the World, that a local paper doesn't cover those stories as well or as thoroughly as bigger organizations who were always focused on that.
However it's much easier and more profitable to have five reporters writing the same stories for 60 newspapers than a full staff working for local tid bits and digging into things.
I get my news like most people, I see something of interest and then either use Google to get more in depth or if its truly local talk to the local people, we use to do that a lot too, but it happens less and less.
I stopped taking the Reno paper when they raised the price to $1.25 for what amounts to 4 pages of newsprint on a normal day and no discount for subscriptions. Newspapers are dying everywhere and it’s a sad thing. I hate reading news online but that’s the only real choice these days.
Wow, he told us something we already knew. But we're all idiots, and he's the only informed guy on the board.
There's not one daily newspaper in America that doesn't supplement its local coverage with national and state news, AP filler, and syndicated columnists, regardless of whether it's locally-owned or part of a national conglomerate. So I'm not sure exactly what your point is.
When you see something of local interest in Tulsa and you google to learn more about that particular topic, chances are high that two of the top three non-sponsored results are going to be the Tulsa World and you're going to read it. So basically you're still dependent upon your local newspaper.
Local newspapers use to cover local news first. Then came other stuff. Now all the local papers read like national papers with a slight emphasis on local angles or stories.
When I google a local event I get all kinds of stuff from our four local news stations, some times local radio stations. These usually come linked with updates and other stories. I also often get direct links to the information that the Tulsa World reporter googled, or articles from suburban papers where someone local covered an actual local event.
I know not to read the Tulsa World article, so I skip right over it, I don't support it or use it to get information from. This isn't the 1980s I don't have three channels with news a 6 and 10 that if I miss is gone forever or depending on reading the newspaper for a detailed look I can do on my own time.
It's the age of information I get it from lots of places, but not the Tulsa World.
All those sources are still subpar to what the Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune put out before. And you are an idiot for not reading the Tulsa World. It is at least as good as the sources you read. But you keep not reading one of the last remaining sources and feel like you've got some standard. Skipping one of the 6 crappy sources out there just makes you more ignorant. Of course I'm speaking to the wind and the rest of the board here, because you couldn't take my back talk. What a pompous windbag.
Newspaper business is very tough and not going to get any better.
I subscribe to Tulsa World and Kansas City Star. Had the Star subscription before I left KC and have had since I moved here in 1988. I've had Tulsa subscription since I moved here. I'm sure I'll have both subscriptions until they go out of business or I'm not breathing, lol.
Neither paper are what they use to be.
The Star built a beautiful new all glass building a few years ago. You could look inside driving by or walking and see the new huge presses. They recently quit printing the paper in the new building and the building is for sale. The Star is being printed in Des Moines.
I subscribe to Tulsa World and Kansas City Star. Had the Star subscription before I left KC and have had since I moved here in 1988. I've had Tulsa subscription since I moved here. I'm sure I'll have both subscriptions until they go out of business or I'm not breathing, lol.
Neither paper are what they use to be.
The Star built a beautiful new all glass building a few years ago. You could look inside driving by or walking and see the new huge presses. They recently quit printing the paper in the new building and the building is for sale. The Star is being printed in Des Moines.
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