Comments on: Quick to Be a Little Less Quick?

By: paperboy

paperboy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:36:56 +0000

I did hear that QUICK was scheduled to go weekly in August. That may or may not have changed since DMN started their BRIEFING publication. Kinda like the QUICK, without the hip factor.

By: Double duh

Double duh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:30:31 +0000

Good idea…Quick’s new name should reflect the last remaining place left a person is willing to sit and read a newspaper.

By: duh

duh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:18:00 +0000

Don’t mind Hyper-Literate. The paper must have been unsatisfying during his morning poo.

By: jrp

jrp — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:12:30 +0000

hey, man, leave Billy Preston out of this

By: Hyper-Literate

Hyper-Literate — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:11:01 +0000

Lets spam the few readers we have left with old news. Great idea!

By: Hyper-Literate

Hyper-Literate — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:03:48 +0000

Jim the first thing you discover when reading a copy of Quick (and not just holding it to your forehead and waiting for osmosis to occur) is that it is full of shortened DMN stories.
You have to have some kind of copy to rehash before you can produce Quick. Hence the name: it’s news you can read fast.
Other than columns, Quick produces little to no original content.
Combining with Guidelive is just going to lead to firing the entire Quick staff, which is mostly made up of section editors and copy editors.
Quick is going to be a casualty of the internet.
What your suggesting won’t happen because DMN is losing money and if Quick’s niche market (commuters on DART and other public transit) is getting their info online then what’s the point?
Nothing from nothing means nothing. You have got to have something if you want to people to read it.

By: Cristen

Cristen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:00:49 +0000

Not sure eliminating production will help this “technically” progressive product from being outdated, since the EIC is an Aggie, after all, .

By: Wes Mantooth

Wes Mantooth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:53:41 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Quick a Belo-owned entity? Therefore, any of these good ideas would be verboten at Quick.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:49:44 +0000

But the thing is…moving to a email push PDF delivery there is no “production deadline” of a DMN paper product to be printed first.
Perhaps Guidelive and Quick can combine to become a web portal for Dallas entertainment?
More live performance reviews?
Kind of like the Observer without all the New Times crap their web site includes.

By: Cristen

Cristen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:46:07 +0000

Jim, not a bad idea. But, getting day-old news in your inbox defeats the purpose of the internet. One of Quick’s biggest problems is the production deadline is obviously too early before it’s printed (because the Quick staff has to wait for the DMN to print before they can recycle the old news. Going weekly would only make that problem worse.) I can appreciate that the target audience is young, busy folks with careers (who probably don’t even realize most of the non-wire news is old). But, I’m not interested in old gossip that’s already been rehashed by the time Quick prints it on Page 2. The columns are engaging, at times, so I only hope Quick staffers start producing more of their own NEW stuff, if they go weekly.