It didn't take long for a reader to notice this one: Today's regional stocks table on Page D-21 of the Business section looked weird to a caller -- because he'd already seen it earlier this month. On Saturday, Jan. 17, in fact.
Today's the 27th, so I'm betting a typo was involved in transmitting or formatting the info. It really should have been caught, because two of today's columns have "Friday close" and "Friday change" as labels, which should have been a clear indicator that this was an end-of-week summary.
I'll talk with the Business department about how to address this in print tomorrow. Ouch.
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HAHAHAHA. Maybe they did because on that day MNI trade over a $1
Ball washing amateurs
I wouldn't be surprised if it was done on purpose by disillusioned employees.
The stocks pages are out-sourced to an outside service page creation service. These electronic page files are then downloaded into the pagination system for each edition.
The shrinking newsroom depends on automation for page make-up, nowadays. It’s this dependancy, and absence of human driven checking steps, that creates these embarrassments.
But it’s the Stocks page. One day, newspapers will comprehend that a limited listing of stale data is useless to real traders.
Odd how old stale business news hangs around for days, but another high interest plane crash story evaporates before our eyes. McClatchy needs some quality control people. I wonder how many rupees that would cost?
Checking with Rhonda, “Z and me was slumming in KC, registering to vote and all. Business, shizness! Old stock reports, Who cares? “I love you. You love me. We're a happy family….”
The KC Scar has more than one ouch.
Who is minding the store?
Who is minding the store?
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Jason "ACORN" Whitlock
The Jackson County Courthouse Inmate Union Local No 13 - Deann Smith
Fag Hags R Us - Mary Sanchez
Tranny Ho's in Print - Ron Lokeman
Emanual Cleaver's Affirmative Action and Former Felon Coalition
Cross Dressers in Journalism- Co Chaired by Derrick Donovan and Mike Hendricks
We're hanilin it. Sunder control.
The Star's stock pages are not outsourced. They are created on-site. The problem was: The template that was used for Jan. 27 was designed to be used only when financial markets are closed on Monday ... as they were the previous week for MLK Day. Somebody used the wrong template, so the table picked up the Jan. 16 closing prices.
"It really should have been caught"
The motto of today's dysfunctional newsrooms.
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