Toledo Blade Article on New Ride (11/5)

Nothing earthshattering - just FYI...

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20021105&Category=BUSINESS03&ArtNo=111050060&Ref=AR
*** This post was edited by dcpoint 11/5/2002 2:26:11 PM ***

Actually, I didn't realize it was a new pic at first. Check out that yellow piece furthest to the left - interesting that it looks to have 2 areas where it connects to track...

Just like the Blade to report on something later than other media! At least they did it before the coaster opened, since they have a history of reporting events after the fact!
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That odd looking yellow piece looks to be the next piece on the left side connecting to the twisting part of track.

Actually, the Blade had the very first story back on August 23.

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*** This post was edited by Gemini 11/5/2002 6:05:22 PM ***

newt said:
...since they have a history of reporting events after the fact!

Uh, how else does one report on things? Before they occur? The psychics on staff aren't paid enough for that.

But I agree that The Blade is a sorry excuse for American journalism in general. Good story here, though. And nice pic.

FYI--The Blade is one of the the countries better papers. to bad its for the worlds most boring area to live in. if it werent for my Wings and CP, no one xecpt farmers would wanna live here.

and by better i dont nessecarily mean fast(or accurate) but well edited with good stories and writers

Acctually the Blade isnt even on the US Top 1000 List. Its still a good paper though.

But, i prefer the NY Times :)

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- Dennis

This is beside the point, but The Blade is a Block family newspaper. It is very political and biased a lot of times. I don't consider it to be a great paper, even though it is my hometown paper.

In this case, I do not think it is biased though. I'm glad to see it keep covering a story as it unfolds.

The Blade is crap. My high school's paper is better than the Blade. I usually just use it to line my bird cage unless there is something such as this story that intrests me.

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mk468zz said:
Uh, how else does one report on things? Before they occur? The psychics on staff aren't paid enough for that.

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I was refering to the fact that typically any event coming up the Blade usually only does an article after the fact. Instead of telling the public that the event is comming up and what will be at the event. Besides the Blade is pathetic, they twist what people say. The Plain Dealer is better and cheaper. Anyway I couldn't agree more that the alternating colors is looking pretty sweet.------------------
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*** This post was edited by newt 11/5/2002 10:11:40 PM ***
*** This post was edited by newt 11/5/2002 10:12:20 PM ***

Please, I live in Cleveland but go to school in Toledo. The Blade really isnt that bad. Comparing to the Plain Dealer alot of papers suck but i mean come on. Youre comparing a paper from the 2nd largest city in the state to a paper form the 5th or 6th largest in the state. Trust me when i say there is really mot much that happens in Toledo worth reporting on. What people consider as the Cleveland area is so large and densely populated throughout the entire county. Toledo doesent extend much beyond I-475. For the fact that there arent as many subscribers in the area the Blade doesent get enough money to have a 2 Pound paper like the Plain Dealer with 10 different sections. For a smaller city paper the blade is pretty decent and they gave you pictures of the ride, what more can you ask for? Please people, next time you want to bash something or someone at least compare apples to apples.
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Actually, as far as metro media markets go, Cleveland is first, then Cinci, then Colubmus. Arbitron ranks them 25, 26 and 35 nationally.

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Wasnt this thread Closed down at one point?

its weird, one day you see it closed then open again.

Now We're talking about newspapers

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I agree that the blade is a sad excuse for a newspaper. They have a long history of reporting false news and being very biased. I used to have a subscription until the more I read it I found that the only real value in it is the sunday inserts.

Anyone who thinks that the Block News Alliance practices disciplined journalism ought to have their head examined...Anyway, I'm still curious as to what that peice at the left side of that picture is all about.

I can't stand the Blade or the Blah as I like to call it. To biased and the articles are not very good most of the time. Enough about the paper itself. The article wasn't too bad, I did like the pictures. Unfortunatly it wasn't anything spectacular. However I would not expect that from the Blah anyways.

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By the way, Jeff has a better camera than they do. The picture looks really bad on zoom 2. :)