A humbling experience
March 24th, 2008, 2:50 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Terry Ross
BY TERRY ROSS, News and Information Center Director
News people often get caught up in trying to chase down and report the “important” stories of the 
day. After all, that is what sells the newspaper, right?
Well, certainly that is one factor in attracting people to the newspaper, but it is always a humbling experience when you do something like leaving out the horoscopes or publishing the wrong answer to a puzzle.
It is then that readers let you know what is really vital to them.
We mixed up a comics page this past weekend, throwing puzzle workers into a tizzy. They put a lot of work into their puzzles and then found the answers the next day didn’t match. What to do? Well, calling The Sun to tell them about it came to mind for a lot of them.
Some said this is the most important part of the paper to them. Newspaper have published crosswords for many decades for exactly that reason. Fans find them addictive and keep buying the paper for more of them.
We were properly chastised and are publishing the correct answers.
Of course, as one caller told me, they don’t really “need” the answers, but they like to confirm their good work.
