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I have no idea, and when I clicked on the link I ended up with a slideshow. The Post-Dispatch's website gives me an ice cream headache.
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Carpenter called out Rosenthal for failing to cover first during the Mets series
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artie_fufkin wrote:
I have no idea, and when I clicked on the link I ended up with a slideshow. The Post-Dispatch's website gives me an ice cream headache.
Right. I've been boycotting the PD for about 3 years now but you guys have made me desperate to search for allies (other than the old men I exchange emails with).
But the thing about Carpenter appears in the first paragraph of Ortiz's Q & A at the start of the slide show.
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Carpenter called out Rosenthal for failing to cover first during the Mets series
Thanks, Fors. I saw the incident but hadn't read anything about Carpenter's comments. I imagine it hurt Rosey's feelings and it would have been better if he hadn't said it But it was also understandable. Fortunately, Rosey hasn't commented on Carpenter's base runnig, at least so far as I've heard.
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I have no idea, and when I clicked on the link I ended up with a slideshow. The Post-Dispatch's website gives me an ice cream headache.
Right. I've been boycotting the PD for about 3 years now but you guys have made me desperate to search for allies (other than the old men I exchange emails with).
But the thing about Carpenter appears in the first paragraph of Ortiz's Q & A at the start of the slide show.
Don't read the comments. There are people there who are ever bitterer than I.
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I have no idea, and when I clicked on the link I ended up with a slideshow. The Post-Dispatch's website gives me an ice cream headache.
Those things piss me off. You click the wrong thing and the whole thing fucks up. Then you have to start over. Drives me insane. Idk why i bother. Their writers suck and the whole website is annoying. A common article entails answering a survey and exiting out of 2 advertisements.
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I have no idea, and when I clicked on the link I ended up with a slideshow. The Post-Dispatch's website gives me an ice cream headache.
Those things piss me off. You click the wrong thing and the whole thing fucks up. Then you have to start over. Drives me insane. Idk why i bother. Their writers suck and the whole website is annoying. A common article entails answering a survey and exiting out of 2 advertisements.
It's what happens when there's only one newspaper in town. I wouldn't line a bird cage with the Boston Herald most days, but at least it keeps the other paper on its toes.
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Artie I know you just left the industry, but do you have any idea what's up with the stupid survey idea? Is that common on-line or is that a P-D thing? It's a complete waste of time when all I have to do is hit "skip survey" at the bottom of every survey.
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I have very little insight into what that's all about. My guess is the P-D is trying to better determine its demographic so their ad reps can go to their prospective advertisers and say, "Hey, Bommarito Ford, 57 percent of the people who clicked on a Mizzou ice hockey article indicated they drive pickup trucks, are you interested in running an ad? blah.. blah .. blah," but the questions seem pretty random. And, as you say, you can opt to just skip the survey.
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I have very little insight into what that's all about. My guess is the P-D is trying to better determine its demographic so their ad reps can go to their prospective advertisers and say, "Hey, Bommarito Ford, 57 percent of the people who clicked on a Mizzou ice hockey article indicated they drive pickup trucks, are you interested in running an ad? blah.. blah .. blah," but the questions seem pretty random. And, as you say, you can opt to just skip the survey.
Of course no one would ever think of lying when responding to one of those polls. Especially not I.
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I have very little insight into what that's all about. My guess is the P-D is trying to better determine its demographic so their ad reps can go to their prospective advertisers and say, "Hey, Bommarito Ford, 57 percent of the people who clicked on a Mizzou ice hockey article indicated they drive pickup trucks, are you interested in running an ad? blah.. blah .. blah," but the questions seem pretty random. And, as you say, you can opt to just skip the survey.
Of course no one would ever think of lying when responding to one of those polls. Especially not I.
I just check the first box I see that I think will get rid of the survey and get me to the article. The other thing is I visit the Post Dispatch website less often because I know I'm going to have to click through one of their silly surveys.