Re: Speaking of magazines

**F*@aol.com**

Our local papers keep finding ways to drive readers to their website. For  
some time they've had a photo caption contest, with a winner each week. Now they 
 run the photo and list the names of those who submitted captions, but the  
captions themselves can only be read online.
This would be less troubling if their website were more user-friendly.  
Unfortunately, it's a pretty frustrating mess.
JF

That's an interesting trend. Out local newspaper has a whole section  that  
it 
calls E-News (or something similar). It asks for community  news coverage 
from 
people that are at events, complete with pictures, and  then prints them if 
they  are deemed useful. Particularly used for  sports meetings, and 
community 
meetings  like school redistricting  where differing views are common - it 
makes 
real  interviews  unnecessary.

I just  got a look at the Feb/Mar 2009 issue of  Horticulture. There are 
numerous plugs  for their website, particularly  inviting readers to 
participate in 
the blogs  and forums. Then large  hunks of the magazine are just 
transcriptions from  these on-line  (free) contributions. 

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