Re: [Chrysler300] New Newsflite : OPPS

[paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

OPPS, pressed the SEND instead of the spell check!!

climbing back on my soapbox

 -------------- Original message from Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------

> To all the complainers:
> Maybe I can shed some light  on this.
> I've been a member of this fine club for over 30 years. For most of 
> those  30 years, both the 300 Club News and the NewsFlite were edited 
> by our beloved Eleanor.  For the last 4 years or so, Andy Mikonis has 
> done a fine job, under great pressure. Most of the pressure comes from 
> a big lack of cooperation from the members, no contributions! Andy 
> litteraly begs for input every issue and has to dig up older,  rerun 
> stories sometimes to fill the Club News issue. Sad!  We have 1000 
> members and he can't get any to send in their story!

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> Now to the part that makes me mad. Some of the complainers I don't 
> think I've seen on the list before. But I'd bet that damn near all of 
> them (not to mention most ALL of you) have never sent in a story about 
> their car and how it came to be in their care. And that's after many 
> requests. If you have a "G" and Andy is asking for "D" stories, sit 
> down and tell us about your "G", were (and who) it came from, what 
> you've done and how and so on. Send it in, tonight!  Andy can hold it 
> until he needs it.

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> Ray in Mena

As a person who once served as an editor for a publication with a
circulation a tad under 10,000 I can attest to the lack of submissions
by the readership.  IT WAS very SPARSE.  I had a stockpile of filler
material, fortunately what I dredged up to use as readable content
were not articles on a short recycle time.  I had to fill 16 pages of
newsprint sized pages each issue. Any material that ends up on a
short recycle time grows stale!!!  And I think some have grumbled 
about that already.

One thing I did was to stress that if those responsible for a portion of
the content did not submit material, I WAS NOT GOING to write it for
them.  BUT should I receive something that needed a total rewrite I
would do it. At least the person made an effort. It took several BLANK
spaces with a small box in it "Space left blank due to no submission
on time." to wake up the person that was supposed to fill that spot.

The Editors job should be to take submitted material, decide if it's
in readable form, try and make it so if it is not, and decide the look and feel
for each issue as it is prepared.  Is this not the case????

IF there is space to fill and someone has to generate the content then
its laszi-faire, you get what pops up on the moment. In my book,
there is no Room for Complaints (unless all of a sudden we get political
adds, Humm, but then paid adds, revenue, opps cann't do that either.

Even should the Editor have proven communications skills, once there is 
dead air, he will freewheel it and generate something. Ya gets what ya pays fer!

Untill now I have silently sat on the fence, having once been in the hot seat
I know what it's like.  (and yes I was one of the very few that threw their
spare tire in the wheelwell when the call went out for a new editor)

 
I might NOT have exersized as much restraint as our current Editor has
when bomb-basted by the silent majority, so maybe a better choice was made.

Carry one OH Editor of State I stand behind thee!!!


--
Paul Holmgren
2 57 300-C's in Indy
Hoosier Corps #L6
A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future. 
                           - RobertA. Heinlein

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