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Old 03-09-2013, 02:49 PM
 
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Rolling Stone is also an "Entertainment Tabloid" -- well, they used to be until they went to standard magazine format. (They were at their best when they were a tabloid, and PJ O'Rourke and Hunter S Thompson were writing weekly stories. Although Matt Taibbi has turned out to be an excellent writer, too.)

The two Las Vegas tabloids do plenty of entertainment stuff, but they usually have two or three good "news features." Two-to-three-thousand word stories that go deeper than the RJ and Sun ever will. You can't rely on them for your day-to-day news. But their stories are far better than the 500-750 words the RJ gives a subject.
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Old 03-09-2013, 03:30 PM
 
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The articles listed by Von are opinion ...editorials. No real content.

These publications may do in depth stuff but none of that was it. The water article for instance is pretty much all opinion and appears to reflect certain environmental views rather than reality. Kind of a "tree huggers to the parapets" approach.

Often the LA Times is a better source of LV stuff then anyone local
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Old 03-09-2013, 03:34 PM
 
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WHEN has the LALA Times EVER written a pice that wasnt derogatory towards Las Vegas?????
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Old 03-09-2013, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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WHEN has the LALA Times EVER written a pice that wasnt derogatory towards Las Vegas?????
Amen. They've been jealous and vindictive toward Las Vegas probably since the 1940s. You can't believe a thing the LA Crimes ever says. You and I have seen their BS since the early 60s, Dyn.
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Old 03-09-2013, 04:46 PM
 
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Just curious, Von, why only Vegas Seven sources? As a teacher, I was interested in the education article, but it turns out, was just an op ed and I think some of the author's presumptions were false. Isn't Vegas Seven an entertainment magazine?
I don't favor it over other mags. I just see them at the car wash, waiting rooms, smoothly shops and nail salons more than others. If I read an interesting article in a magazine(anyone), then I check it out online, then share it with others(not just this site).

Honestly I read just about any local publication I get my hands on.

Weekly
RJ
Sun
Desert Companion
Seven
Black
Etc




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Old 03-09-2013, 05:56 PM
 
Location: Paradise
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Rolling Stone is also an "Entertainment Tabloid" -- well, they used to be until they went to standard magazine format. (They were at their best when they were a tabloid, and PJ O'Rourke and Hunter S Thompson were writing weekly stories. Although Matt Taibbi has turned out to be an excellent writer, too.)

The two Las Vegas tabloids do plenty of entertainment stuff, but they usually have two or three good "news features." Two-to-three-thousand word stories that go deeper than the RJ and Sun ever will. You can't rely on them for your day-to-day news. But their stories are far better than the 500-750 words the RJ gives a subject.
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I don't favor it over other mags. I just see them at the car wash, waiting rooms, smoothly shops and nail salons more than others. If I read an interesting article in a magazine(anyone), then I check it out online, then share it with others(not just this site).

Honestly I read just about any local publication I get my hands on.

Weekly
RJ
Sun
Desert Companion
Seven
Black
Etc




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I'll look at them a little more closely. I've just never thought of them as a news source and op eds, I take with a grain of salt.
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Old 03-09-2013, 08:02 PM
 
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Grain of salt here also. If anything, I read them for their entertainment value. Plus, I prefer these threads over the "what's the safest place to live?" Threads.


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Old 03-09-2013, 08:12 PM
 
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WHEN has the LALA Times EVER written a pice that wasnt derogatory towards Las Vegas?????
Well just last week...From the LA Times...

Las Vegas – a city people just love to hate - Los Angeles Times
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Old 03-09-2013, 10:39 PM
 
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(Las Vegas Weekly is an awesome paper. One of the best free city weekly's in the US.)

I'm not sure what Las Vegas can do to grow a more diversified economy. It's easy to think you can
just attract new industries, but the reality is, it's tough to do. LV has always struck me as an 'invented' town with no natural reason to exist. Towns that crashed in the 80's, like Houston, have now rebounded because they diversified more and their core industry (oil and gas) has come back big-time.

For Las Vegas I don't see anything more than slow incremental change. It can only bounce back so far, without adding a whole new industry....which does not happen overnight.

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Old 03-09-2013, 11:09 PM
 
Location: Paradise
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Grain of salt here also. If anything, I read them for their entertainment value. Plus, I prefer these threads over the "what's the safest place to live?" Threads.


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I know...something like 393 and counting. We should just start suggesting Washington and J Street.
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