DesNews doing a 5 part piece on Eric Weddle's new book, No Excuses, No Regrets.
http://deseretbook.com/No-Excuses-Re...oone/i/5102377
Part 1- http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...-freshman.html
Part 2- http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...dles-life.html
“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
The DesNews has become such a joke. A FIVE PART SERIES on Eric Weddle's new book? Why? Oh, wait, it's written by a DNews journalist!Originally Posted by chrisrenrut
They are trying to survive by becoming the national LDS newspaper. Weddle is a good story for their audience because of his conversion. If you look at the most-read stories every day, they are LDS-oriented. That's why we see so much about BYU sports on the DesNews online edition. I once asked a writer there why, in the Sunday morning DesNews, a minor BYU win would get top billing over a major Utah win, and he said they're just catering to their core national audience.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
They also fired a good chunk of their actual journalists, choosing to let 'contributors' write to save money.
They're expanding their numbers by online subscriptions, because they can't actually sell hard copies in Utah.
As someone who isn't LDS, both the Deseret News and KSL are close to unreadable/unwatchable as most every story gets a religious twist (even when its not religious) I just want sports and news. (For those that don't know KUTV routinely destroys KSL in the ratings these days)
As for sports, they have one writer assigned to Utah, Dirk Faced. Amy Donaldson has stated writing articles, but she's mediocre at best. They forced Linda Hamilton out of gymnastics coverage a few years ago. Usually they don't send a local reporter to cover Utah on the road, instead hiring a student from the opposing schools student body to write the article (or just publishing Utah's press release)
It's not even really a story. It's 5 excerpts lifted straight from the book
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