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		<title>Deconstructing the Ann Arbor News</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new article from Jeff Jarvis on Deconstructing the Newspaper really hits the nail on the head for me. I&#8217;ve been constantly annoyed by the Ann Arbor News for trying to be a national newspaper, trying to be all things to all people. I want a local newspaper that covers local news. I get the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new article from <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.buzzmachine.com');">Jeff Jarvis</a> on <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/01/18/new-news-deconstructing-the-newspaper/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.buzzmachine.com');">Deconstructing the Newspaper</a> really hits the nail on the head for me. I&#8217;ve been constantly annoyed by the <a href="http://www.annarbornews.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.annarbornews.com');">Ann Arbor News</a> for trying to be a national newspaper, trying to be all things to all people. I want a local newspaper that covers local news. I get the New York Times, and between that and the web I get plenty of national news. I depend on the AAN to give me local election coverage, tell me about upcoming local issues, etc.</p>
<p>Unfortunately that requires wading through a bunch of crap every day. We discontinued daily delivery because it was so much paper to throw away I felt bad about it. So now I just get the Sunday paper. But that means I miss out on about half of their reporting.</p>
<p>I would really like to the Ann Arbor News switch to being a weekly paper, or maybe a twice-weekly paper. Give me a paper filled with all the content I need, and none that I don&#8217;t. Or just put it up on a website. I&#8217;d even pay a subscription fee for the web site if I had to.</p>
<p>Of course, it is pretty unlikely that a local newspaper in a small midwestern city is going to do anything particularly innovative. They seem to have ceded their web presence to <a href="http://mlive.com" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/mlive.com');">MLive</a>, which does a pretty terrible job themselves.</p>
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