Newspapers Still Don’t Get It

Daily newspapers have been fighting decreasing readership and falling subscriptions for at least a couple of decades now. More and more, newspapers are putting their content online.

For that I salute them.

But the web is now about 15 years old, and I wonder why so many newspapers still don’t manage to get some of the basic things right.

This morning I was reading an article about a replicate of the Nina coming to town. The article is in this morning’s edition (Wednesday, March 12) but under the headline there’s a line that says “Last updated March 11.” This suggests the article was first written and published sometime prior to March 11.

So when the article says the Nina is coming to town Monday, does it mean Monday two days ago, or Monday of next week, or some other Monday?