For those who dont subscribe to the Dispatch website...

you're missing quality gems of articles such as the following. It is directly copied and pasted:

Blue Jackets’ season status report
Friday, November 14, 2003

The game against the 12 Blue time will Boston mark this Jackets back Bruins season the -to have second - tonight back the played games. In the franchise’s three-plus seasons, Columbus is 12-30-3-5 in the second half of back-to-backs.


Yep, thats what you get for your 5 bucks a month. Oh, every now and then they screw up and put up the article correctly.

I know that sometimes the computer screws up on stuff like this. But I've emailed them several times about fixing it with no response.

So anyway, thats what youre missing out on if you were smart enough, unlike me, to not give the $5 a month for a subscription.

Yes, I was also dumb enough to shell out $5 a month for the subscription, and yes, their formatting is atrocious.

A mistake even more egregious than this one happened last week--the first half of the article was about the Jackets, and then, inexplicably, mid-article, the story changed into a recap of a Lakers game.

I will be cancelling my subscription shortly.

It is heinous and half-assed at best. When I run into that I go to the electronic version that looks exactly like the paper. Of course, they don't have the full version up until mid-morning, and that doesn't help me a lot.

At least they are trying new things on the site and working on it. I would think that they could find someone to proof some of that garbage though.

DJ - if you bag the $5, go to the Jackets site and 1460's site to read for free. If I paid for that access, I would be emailing them daily. As I am not, I tend to lay off and save my rage for the team that's covered.

you're missing quality gems of articles such as the following. It is directly copied and pasted:

Blue Jackets’ season status report
Friday, November 14, 2003

The game against the 12 Blue time will Boston mark this Jackets back Bruins season the -to have second - tonight back the played games. In the franchise’s three-plus seasons, Columbus is 12-30-3-5 in the second half of back-to-backs.


Yep, thats what you get for your 5 bucks a month. Oh, every now and then they screw up and put up the article correctly.

I know that sometimes the computer screws up on stuff like this. But I've emailed them several times about fixing it with no response.

So anyway, thats what youre missing out on if you were smart enough, unlike me, to not give the $5 a month for a subscription.

Yeesh....

My Favorites are the ones where they didnt run a spell checker on it. You d think they were drunk when they approved it.

My brother just recently canceled his subscription.