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Daily Globe Makes Third Attempt
at On-line Website
But The Superior Chronicle
remains "Simply Superior"

The Daily Globe first responded to the high cost of producing a printed daily newspaper by discontinuing home delivery of the paper. Laying off many local delivery personnel in an attempt cut expenses. A move that has come back to haunt them in their attempt to compete with local on-line news provider the " Superior Chronicle". Just a month ago, the Globe tried to increase its' profits by introducing a new "pay for view" on-line news edition. Unfortunately for the Globe the subscriptions have been slow to come by. The Globe has failed to penetrate the on-line readership of feistier Ironwood based Superior Chronicle. The Globe of course is produced by out-of-state conglomerate Bliss Communications. For quite a while now the locally owned and published news website "The Chronicle" has beaten the Globe in delivering more timely and more in-depth news coverage. The decision to cancel home delivery has caused the Globe to be days late in delivering important, local news events.
While the Globe editors are home a sleep the reporters and photographers of the Chronicle are at the news scene taking photos and videos which readers can view before "they" go to bed for the night. When the Globe and the Chronicle have reporters at the same news event, the Globe only reports TV like sound bites, while the Chronicle has an in-depth story on the net shortly after the event. While readers get the Globes "version" of an event readers of the Chronicle get to read a complete and accurate story, and on many occasions they can view the event on video "free" - right on line.

This week in an attempt to get off the ropes and catch up to the Chronicle, the Globe gave up and decided to emulate it's superior competitor. The Globe is publishing a near carbon copy of the very same website they trashed in last fall's election. Even with the newly revamped website the Globe will still be in second place if they continue sleep as news take place. While the Daily Globe is offering world and US news on video (supplied by the AP) , however, the Superior Chronicle offers video of local news.

One has to wonder "why would the Globe considering the precarious position that it's in, would rush to put out it's inaugural on-line edition with so many errors in it?" Isn't the job of editors to catch out-of -date stories being passed off as news? Unlike Ironwoodinfo which is an e-zine (online magazine) the Globe is supposed to be reporting the news and this is where the Superior Chronicle has been clearly Superior
 

  • The Chronicle has up-to-the minute news.
     
  • The Chronicle reports facts not opinions.
     
  • The Chronicle reports in-depth and includes lots of photos.
     
  • The Chronicle has on-line video of local news events.
     
  • The Chronicle does not censor or filter the news.
    The Chronicle is local and reports what local readers want to read.
    The Chronicle does not cover-up governmental wrong doing.

    Clearly if the inaugural edition of "Your Ironwood Daily Globe" is a sign of things to come, the Daily Globe has a difficult if not impossible job ahead.
     
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    This website will now serve as a local online magazine offering local information about Gogebic,  Iron and Ontonagon Counties.

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    You will be able to enjoy articles of  local interest  including  political and economic investigative reports. There is a  food and cooking feature which serves up recipes certainly to be of interest in our community. A new year-long garden column serves to answer your garden questions and provide other information of interest to the garden enthusiast.

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