Talk:Norfolk Daily News

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So many awards...
This article badly needed to be written; but I think that right now, it's much too self-promotional.

The "Awards" section takes up half the article. I haven't checked their current versions, but I suspect that the articles on the New York Times and the Washington Post don't list their third-place awards for "black-and-white classified ad idea". Most of that section would be of little or no interest to any reader who's not one of the award-winners or their mothers.

The same problem occurs elsewhere in the article. Too much of it is dedicated to what a swell guy Jerry Huse is. If I were reading this article in an actual dead-tree newspaper, I'd fling it across the room upon reading that Huse had been a major donor in many community fund drives. With its unrelenting string of accolades, it comes across like something turned out by Kim Jong Il's press agent.

There's nothing about the paper's circulation area, editorial policies, or involvement in local controversies. The current circulation is given, but we aren't told its history: steady, rising, or apparently declining from a higher level? There's no information about newspaper competition in Norfolk's early history: were there other papers, and did they close or consolidate with the Daily News? All of this would be of interest to a general reader&mdash;much more than endless lists of minor awards racked up by the paper and its publishers.

--Ammodramus (talk) 22:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)