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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Not law but interesting - Indy Star posting abbreviated stories
Over the past few days I've noticed a new trend. I'm not sure yet if it is unique to the Star, or extends to all Gannet papers.
The entire Star story you read at the breakfast table may not be posted online. Instead, what appears in the browser window is an abbreviated version.
In the BMV story I just write about in the last entry, for instance, it appears that all of what would have been an online "page 2", if the Star were following the new "2-page system" many papers have adopted recently (intended, I expected, to lead to higher click counts), is missing.
There is much more text in the printed, breakfast table story. And this is not counting the side-bars.
Currently, I've found that if I use the "print" link, that text includes the missing parts of the story.
Is this a glitch or a "feature" intended to drive readers back to the newsprint version? I'd say the former, since the latter would likely be accompanied by some promotion.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 9, 2009 09:07 AM
Posted to General News