The Dallas Morning News Reviews

At the beginning of COVID two years ago you reported locally accurate data on infections and deaths, but always added data “preexisting conditions and age”. This reflected the then popular narrative that young healthy people weren’t at risk. So, story was slanted, but data was accurate and useful. Now, with the Delta variant you again report infections and deaths, but you don’t touch the percent who are unvaccinated. Occasionally I read the majority are unvaccinated, and even once I read the vast majority are unvaccinated. The exact data is critical in convincing unvaccinated friends and family to get the shots. After all, 51% is far, far different than 99% in that type of discussion. Do your job - give us the data we need, not just parrot some national line.

I have subscribed to the DMN for 37 years. It has been a reliable (and sole) source of local news for all that time. Sadly during this period the national coverage has drifted decidedly to the Left.
This drift has coincided with a drop in circulation. The editors seem more responsive to the owners than to their reading public.
Stories supporting a liberal agenda always make their way to the front page while anything adverse either is not covered or slips to the latter pages. Even each story is written with a clear liberal bent. 70 to 80% of the political cartoons attack the Right. The only places that a balanced reality set in are Letters to the Editor and voter recommendations. We have already reduced our subscription to digital, completely cutting the cord is not far away.

I have taken the DMN for more than 20 years since moving to Texas. Hands down the Sports Day section is the best in the country. Great coverage and columns! Local reporting is also excellent. I have considered on more than one occasion dropping the paper as it has more and more bias throughout national reporting. What seems to be lost is reporting of the news and providing information so we as the readers can form our own opinions or inquire further. I do not need a reporter telling me what is true or false, especially without saying that it is their opinion rather than fact. Save that for editorial and opinion pages. Let’s get back to balanced reporting leaving behind bias and sensationalism.

The ‘paper’ is easier to read than a paper paper in my favorite living room chair even with the ceiling fan on full blast. Flipping from page to page is easy and allows skimming until I encounter an article capturing my interest. A firm tap shows the whole article together with photos in full color. A firm tap on the top, left corner returns me to my original location. I can even continue reading when my cat insists on stretching out on my lap. I would not willingly revert to using a paper paper.

This version is not using my entire iPad screen and I have dead space along the bottom and right edges. Have you ever considered getting after user opinions before making final decisions? Also if you enlarge the font at all by stretching the page you’re not able to go to the next page of the paper until you totally put the page back to its original size. Another thing – when I send the crossword puzzle by email the subject of the email is insanely long can you make it just say something like “Dallas morning news puzzle “ thanks.I’m giving one star for now because you took something that was finally working relatively well and set it back I’m looking forward to improvements you can make as soon as possible. Thank you.

The paper only provides a liberal point of view: one side. I have dropped paper twice. Now only take electronic version as I need the real estate news. I take the WSJ.

We need the Times Herald back, competition. Tough business but they need to understand their subscribers are not 100% flaming liberals.

Fox News is about to learn the lesson with less viewership dropping.

I have had a subscription to the Dallas Morning News for several years. When I bring up the new App, I am shown headlines, but when I try to select a story it asked me for an ID and password. With an iTunes subscription you don't have an ID and password combination. I still have a month left on the current subscription.

I have been back and forth all afternoon with the Dallas Morning News and Apple. Apple says it is a developer problem; Dallas Morning News says it is an Apple problem. At one point, Dallas Morning News found my email address, but we still couldn't use it by using that to reset the password.

While the new app looks very good, I feel I have been cheated. I finally canceled my subscription and tried to create a new one. The new subscription fee is more than double what I had been paying.

Dallas Morning News as a Watchdog columnist who loves to investigate and go after cheats. I think I'll try him and see if he's willing to take on his bosses.

The system has a big bug: when selecting an article of interest to share via email or text, 99% of the time the wrong article is sent. It’s impossible to share or save an article of interest. You think you are selecting the correct article only to find another article is attached to the email or text. If you fix this big bug you go from 1 star to 5 stars. I love TheDallasMorningNews and reading the paper on my iPad, except for this issue.

Additionally, the paper’s editorials are still slanted to the left, but I have noticed over the past several months an effort to share opinions from the right as well.

The columnists are almost 100% biased and always report from a left’s viewpoint. Need to hire more balanced reporting columnist for the paper.

I prefer balanced reporting of the facts and not biased reporting either way. I am intelligent enough to have my own opinion from reported facts and not be schooled or told what my opinion should be.

I’m a DMN subscriber for over 30 years and love reading newspapers. TheDallasMorningNews is great for reading the traditional print format, and I would have rated higher if you could better jump to sections without having to go to a specific article. I don’t necessarily want to have to “open” one article to jump to sectional pages of the newspaper.

It would also be a great improvement if there were links imbedded to lead to relevant maps and other source material in the internet related to a given article. This is a great app but it could be even better.

This reader is a great way to read the paper every day.

To the developers. I really wish there were more hotkeys available such as zoom in with the + or zoom out with the -. And if zoomed in, it would be nice to use the keypad to quickly jump to different sections of the open page. So if I hit seven, then it scrolls to the upper left-hand corner. Having to use the mouse and keyboard is a bit cumbersome.

Hate the leftist political writing in the paper, but TheDallasMorningNews works really well. Like that articles are shown like the print edition I took for 40 years (but quit taking due to leftist columnists and editorial content) as well as enlarged for easy reading. Congratulations for TheDallasMorningNews . Now change the biased leftist content please. Be more balanced. Not everything Trump did was hateful. Your editors are hateful.

I love being able to download a version of the paper that’s exactly like the printed version. In addition to being able to read the great articles by the DMN staff. I like that I can see articles run from other papers without having to pay for a subscription at each individual news site.

Dallas Morning News is an excellent paper. Political views are balanced although it does have a conservative preference. A local paper is our watchdog for local and state politics. When you read this paper you know what’s going on in our city and the surrounding area.

If you subscribe by way of Apple, you will have to go through all kinds of efforts periodically as The Dallas Morning News will not offer any support when, even though you have paid and are current through Apple. It takes 20 minutes to talk to someone at DMN who then says they don’t even keep records of your subscription if purchased via Apple store. This is the only news app that has this continuous problem and seems not to care, but they get your money or someone does. Great paper, terrible support for app.

I think in general TheDallasMorningNews works well on my iPad however I am highly concerned that the Dallas Morning News automatically reads my clipboard contents every time I switch to TheDallasMorningNews (whatever I have recently copied) and presumably uploads to their servers. There is no reason to read my clipboard since there is nothing to paste into TheDallasMorningNews - this is a newspaper READING app. No editing happening in TheDallasMorningNews. Please correct this security breach.

If your intent is to follow the mainstream news and ignore all of the news, then you are doing well.
If you print all of the news, you might be surprised by an increase of subscribers. I would like to see two articles of a major news story written from a left and right perspective on the same page. I would like to read news stories that that are reported by Newsmax.

I want to congratulate the DMN tech team for a successful rollout of a significant update to TheDallasMorningNews . I have had no problems since day 1. Great job done by your team who tested and resolved any issues prior to install!

It was working just fine! First the new rollout was a disaster and your customer service didn’t have a clue what to do. I can now get in but HATE the new layout. I used to be able to see an entire page and read it on my iPad without any extra navigating. Now the page/font is bigger and I have to scroll up and down on EVERY SINGLE PAGE. It’s ridiculous. Change it back! I miss the total page count too. Why was that removed?

I no longer live in Dallas but enjoy following Dallas sports as well as local news. I believe that DMN remains the best source for this content, but TheDallasMorningNews is the worst I’ve ever used. I delete and re-install a couple times a month minimum and have to re-log-in a couple times in between. Most frustrating is when traveling, after downloading the days paper and then being locked out while on an airplane! Has happened to me several times.

Purchased the e-paper subscription as a gift to myself for Xmas. Worked well and was quite happy with it for two weeks. I have been trying to access the e-paper since Monday and have had no luck. Consistently states that my email address and password does not match. I have called DSM on Wednesday to report. They said they “needed 24 hours to figure it out.” It’s been 48. Still no access. Wondering if I should cancel my subscription:/.