Comments on: DesNews Expanding Beyond Mormons

By: kenngo1969

kenngo1969 — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:31:29 +0000

Here are some of my thoughts.

https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/paul-huntsman-purchases-sl-trib/

By: Martin James

Martin James — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:37:14 +0000

As a comment writer who is only incoherent and has not entered the hothouse levels of floridly incoherent, I would just add to “Your readers deserve better” well, maybe some do, but those that complain most certainly do not.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 04:15:57 +0000

This is a blog. The contributors have busy lives. The content of the posts is far more important to me than the form. I appreciate the insights and ideas offered, and I would prefer to have more ideas to reflect on than fewer. If more time spent editing results in fewer submissions, that is a negative result. Thank you for your contributions, Clark.

By: Clark Goble

Clark Goble — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 02:58:58 +0000

I can but give my profuse apologies. I’d written it and hadn’t realized I’d published it publicly. You’re completely correct there’s no excuse. I got pulled away and have been busy with one thing after an other ever since. I’ll be more careful only to post when I have a block of time to do a good job. Unfortunately that’ll result in many delays as I’m quite busy.

By: fbisti

fbisti — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:45:55 +0000

On the third hand, it is refreshing to finally see a post about something other than “Reading Nephi.”

By: fbisti

fbisti — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:44:10 +0000

While I only read either the Tribune or the Deseret News online (and then only when alerted by a news aggregator using my selected keywords), I have long (15+ years) been of the opinion that the DN is highly biased and too much affected by its owners’ agenda.

On the other hand, the Tribune has a tendency to take a somewhat LDS-adversarial role, and I am being generous in my opinion.

By: Jeff G

Jeff G — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 04:31:39 +0000

Well that’s more than a little harsh. Reminds me of the academic decathalon from Happy Gilmore:

“Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

By: Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 04:01:03 +0000

Dear Trying and Words: You are annoying and are not adding anything to the discussion. Please go away.

By: Words of advice

Words of advice — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 22:14:13 +0000

Dear Clark,

You are a brilliant person and have wonderful ideas. However, when you write sentences that are floridly incoherent, it shows that you wrote our blog post in haste, did not consider the post important enough to re-read, and evidently thought that many other things in your life were of more value than this blog. If the process of writing your thoughts is so cursory, then readers like me also begin to doubt the extent to which you reflect before you write. This undermines your general credibility, as well as T&S. It also diminishes the quality of thought and reflection present in blog conversations when the author of the blog post – the person guiding the conversation – isn’t really thinking about what they’re doing. What’s more, it’s a bit insulting to your readers to present marginal work for their consumption. Your readers deserve better.

Sorry to be a downer. Happy weekend.

By: Terry H

Terry H — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:00:42 +0000

Clark. This may be slightly off, but I remember decades ago seeing a reprint of a fascinating book. Its called “Early Utah Journalism: Half a Century of Forensic Warfare, Waged by the West’s Most Militant Press” . It was published by the Utah Historical Society in 1938 [wondering if this was one of those historical products funded by New Deal legislation] and reprinted by Greenwood Press in 1970 [that must have been the edition I saw]. I recall reading a few pages and realizing that the DN/ST wars I knew of in the 70s and 80s were nothing compared to the old days.

By: Trying to be helpful

Trying to be helpful — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 06:29:33 +0000

There are a lot of typos in this article, but this sentence, which seems to be the crux of the piece, is completely incoherent:

“After various strategies and leadership, a few years ago they launched a national online edition and has been now going to be writing for the Deseret News.”