Sunday Tribune’s blogosphere column goes poof?
Published October 16th, 2005 in PR in IrelandIt’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse - Adlai Stevenson
I’ve either gone blind or the Sunday Tribune’s blogosphere column has gone up in smoke. I’ve flicked through the various sections and it seems to have disappeared. If they’ve made the decision to can the column then you’d really have to question the editorial direction of the publication. It’s was a unique selling point for the paper that people regularly read, it’s not like the Tribune can afford to lose readers at this point.
If it has disappeared I’d like to think that Irish bloggers could exert the same kind of influence as Guardian readers did to restore the Doonesbury column after their change in formats.
Damien suggests that we start our own weekly round-up.
As a side-note, the Sunday Tribune have relaunched their website at last. I still won’t be visiting it though because it’s subscription based. You can get a free trial, but then again I can get all my news from other sources online, so why would I bother with their site?
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If it was canned they should at least have announced it, maybe there were space issues this week or something?
I should hope so. There’s so many various columns in that paper that you’d think that they could have moved it to the i Magazine or something.
Joe Bloggs was losing his Irish focus. Then he got another byline. See paragraph #4:
http://irish.typepad.com/irisheyes/2005/10/arising_in_trib.html
I think a bit of realism is called for here. How many Irish bloggers are there? At best, a handful of hundred? How many blogs did Richard ever mention in a week - half a dozen? Even of those bloggers mentioned, how many bought the paper, how many didn’t give a toss for the column, and how many just about bothered to sneak a peek at it in the newsagent and then buy a real newspaper? It’s only real interested seems to have been to the egos of those few bloggers mentioned (some more regularly than others). That’s all it was.
Newspapers rarely accounce when they can a column. It simply disappears. That was one of the issues with the Guardian and Doonesbury - one Monday morning, it simply wasn’t there. To announce the cancellation of a column is tantamout to admitting a mistake in comissioning it in the first place. Now who’d want to risk their reputation and do that? better to leave it looking like Riachred’s alter-ego got run over by a bus.
As for other Irish bloggers starting their own weekely round-up - well a lot already do, of a sort, but only when there’s something worth pointing to on another blog. Why change what ain’t broken?
I still think that by running the article the Tribune showed itself to have spotted a niche audience out there. Who cares if only a handful bought it because of it? Personally I don’t think they’re in a position to turn down readers.
They seem to run the same generic q&a twice in the i magazine at times, why not move the column in there?