The DB shuffle

By David Allen on January 9, 2008 5:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) |

Unless you read the Daily Bulletin online, you've seen the change in the paper this week: Local news moved up front, national and world news diminished, Go! section gone, features placed in the B section.

Hey, I'm no ombudsman or anything, but if you have any comments on the change and don't know who to tell, why not leave 'em below?

The change doesn't affect my column, at least not at this point. But it could have.

Because features deadlines are earlier, there was early talk that my deadline for, for example, Wednesday's column, rather than the current 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, would have been 10 a.m. Monday.

So much for my Wednesday coverage of Pomona's Monday night council meetings, a favorite of many of you; that would have had to wait until Friday's column. I might not have bothered. Getting the Ontario council's Tuesday night meetings into Friday's columns would also have been problematical.

Thankfully, the appropriate editors made sure I could keep my current deadlines and continue doing whatever it is I do however it is I do it. I tip my fedora to them.

1 Comments

Donna said:

No comments??? Well I guess I'll be the first! I like the new Bulletin format better. My family (which includes 18 & 19 year olds) actually reads the paper daily over breakfast together. We can get all the national stuff online, but we really enjoy reading the Bulletin (especially your column) about local stuff and things that are going on in the neighborhood.

Haven't enjoyed the paper this much since Chris Reed worked there (I think that was his name -- I guess you could put that under things that aren't here anymore) and how he used to torment the Ontario City Council!

Keep up the good work, if you go, we might stop subscribing!

[Nice of you to say so, Donna. -- DA]

January 14, 2008 8:15 PM