Will The Villages Daily Sun improve its accuracy and professionalism?
 

We have a newspaper that thousands read faithful daily. Yet it is not as informative or professional as it could be. Most articles leave out valuable information such as today's article about places to go raft riding. They mention 3 places. It would be nice if they told us how far they were from here. They also just copy what other people write whether it is right or wrong. An example Sports Stanley cup finials " Canadiens Upset in overtime". Anyone who glanced at that would assume the Lightning won. No Montreal won that game.
We have a good paper. I would just like it to give more facts and become more accurate. Which I believe would make it better.

Won't find an answer here........................call them. :icon_wink:

Only a 'feel good' developer slanted newspaper.

Ask yourself...is TDS intended to be a "news"paper or is it an advertising/sales instrument of the Developer?

Typical media, what's the surprise ?

REALITY-any news source can be so criticized and it has always been so.

It's cheap and you get what you pay for. A "real" newspaper would be a lot more $$.

All news sources have a bias. The staff quickly discovers what will be printed, broadcast etc and what won't. Even as a stringer, freelance reporter, you know who will buy what story. This is not new. It has always been so. OP is interested in sports. For me great liner for my bird cage.

We moved here in June of 2005 and The Villages Daily Sun has improved a great deal over that time frame.

Best to communicate with them directly though.

You obviously know how to go online, so way are you depended on a Developer Sales Tool for your news?

Gary Corsair of The Villages Daily Sun at that time did an article on me on Memorial Day in 2007 (May 28 on a Monday) and got a lot of facts wrong like I went to the U of Denver Graduate School in Librarianship and Information Management (Class of May, 1984) after I dropped out of BYU Law School in 1982. The I went to the U of MN Law School after working in a publishing company that sold products to libraries-- Information Access Company. I was Class of 1989 at the U of MN. I think he messed some schools and their dates up.

He wrote about my advocacy to get the Florida Victim Services Directory linked to the Lake, Sumter and Marion County Library systems' web-sites.

After that he wrote a lot on sports and Big Foot. Chasing the myth of Bigfoot | News | thevillagesdailysun.com

Mr. Corsair is a very good writer. Think that the atmosphere back then in 2007 at The Villages Daily Sun probably threw him off his game so to speak. He had Googled me and got some blow back from the trolls on the Snopes message board. They get a weird e-mail and then seem to post it on their message board where their regular Peanut Gallery can take shots at it. And do not let the person who sent the e-mail get on that message board to defend him or herself. Mr. Corsair found that garbage. But still had the paper run the article after talking with me on the phone to check what was going on there.

Mr. Corsair wrote a very good book on The Groveland Four and something recently on the Wildwood HS Football team . Cats With 12 Lives

The developer owns it and uses it as a sales tool.

If I was a serious journalist why in the world would I want to work there?

The Daily Sun is a poorly-veiled excuse to advertise the Villages. It is not serious journalism. Don't expect the copy editors to give a flying patootie on quality of writing.

A "real" newspaper would have more content, less advertisement. The Daily Sun isn't a newspaper. It's an advertising rag with a few syndicated op-ed pieces and a couple of quasi- or non-essential news on the cover with REALLY BIG pictures that take up space so they don't have to fill it with actual information.

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Gary Corsair moved on from The Villages Daily Sun to find better opportunities.