| Re: [I] Notes from a Flat Land [message #250423] |
Di, 04 April 2006 22:44 |
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Werehatrack <rault00 [at] earthWEEDSlink.net> wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2006 07:05:29 -0800, "GenericUnique"
> <genericunique [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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> >3)a) Don't even ask about the news. I'm a paper junkie and usually
> >read one or more dailies. I'm on the BBC News site a lot.
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> Ah, yes, the joys of the average American adpaper. A few bits of
> wire-service summary lightly sprinkled into the voids that no
> advertiser wanted today.
Which is extremely annoying to someone forced to layout a decent,
European, news[1]-centred weekly local rag using USAnian software. Do
you have any idea how much of a pain in the arse it is to get that stuff
to recognise content-driven layout? Or to stack the ad pages correctly,
without leaving a hole for the expected two inches of "news"? Bleh.
Richard
[1] Well... ok. Big vegetables, sports scores, and petty politics.
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