01/21/01
This one’s for you, Jim
If you’re reading this on our Web site– www.catholicnewworld.com–it’ll
be easier for you. If you’re reading it on our print edition,
you may have to work a little.
But in these days of cross-platform media (that’s when newspapers
have to touch several technological bases to successfully communicate),
there’s a lot of going back and forth trying to keep the subscribers
happy and the Web-surfers satisfied. Well, we try.
That's why our recently redesigned Web site doesn’t have everything
the newspaper offers, and why there may be information available
at the click of a mouse that you don’t get from the printed page.
There is for instance, a fuller version of this week’s The Interview
feature on the Web, giving surfers a broader picture of pro-life
activist Joe Scheidler than we could in our more limited print
pages.
Watch for more cross-platform cooperation in the future, as we
become comfortable with our technical abilities and our physical
limitations. Pretty soon, you might need both—just like today
you need both a parish bulletin and The Catholic New World to
keep up with the news.
All this started with an e-mail I received the other day. A parent,
Jim S., wrote that his 12-year-old daughter and a friend wanted
to see a movie. Well, we all know some movies are worth seeing,
and others…well, they’re not worth much of anything.
So he clicked onto our Web site (www.catholicnewworld.com) looking
for guidance. But he didn’t find it.
Our paper edition offers regular movie ratings from the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops to help guide parents in their
entertainment choices. But though that information is on our Web
site, it’s not easy to find, an oversight we’ll correct as soon
as possible.
What we should be offering, of course, is a direct link to the
NCCB Web site where such ratings can be perused at even greater
depth. So, Jim S.—and other readers who want to know—this one
is for you: That Web address is www.nccbuscc.org. Oh, you could
reach it through our Web site, but it would mean paging through
several menus first. We’ll try to simplify the process.
In the meantime, we’ll make sure that we carry that information
in The Catholic New World—the printed one—too.
—Tom Sheridan,
Editor and General Manager
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