Comments on: Back to paper

By: Carson Fire

Carson Fire — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:31:45 +0000

Hey, hear hear on the size recommendation! That’s one thing I could never figure out about newspapers… you can’t read them at the breakfast table; you can’t read them on the bus; even if you have a whole breakroom all to yourself, the breakroom table isn’t big enough.

Yet the size of things on the page are printed so small so you can’t see them without a magnifying glass. Terrible combo. Awkward physical presence, difficult to see… toss in competition from the internet and a growing conservative distaste for liberally-slanted news, and it’s really awesome that newspapers have any readers left *at all*.

Is it possible that newspapers resist format change out of pride? Maybe they hate the thought of sitting on a rack of equal size and stature as the Globe. (Current headline: Laura walks out on George after discovering affair with Condi!)

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:08:45 +0000

Basically I am more fond of BBC news and would love to hear that only!

it really seems funny that they moved paper to digital to paper

What they are upto!!

By: egghat

egghat — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:40:37 +0000

I guess it’s the other way round. The Guardian found out that over 1/3 of their online visitors come from the U.S. It wouldn’t surprise me if the percentage of US readers of The Times Online is even higher. So I don’t think the papers made an US print version to promote their online business, IMHo they just follow the demand they already see (and it is a rather low risk move).

Of course both papers are high quality journalism, so there definitly is a market.

By: gregory

gregory — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:05:34 +0000

Size; here is Asia the WSJ turned tabloid, lost a lot in my opinion, and, secondly, the best paper in the English speaking world to me is the Financial Times weekend edition, especially the second section. The writers are intelligent, and more important, they assume I am too! What a relief!

By: adslfan

adslfan — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:25:15 +0000

use the millions you make from buzzmachine and buy london newspaper and
change the size and fire everyone and hire all your blogger friends to write
for the paper so everyone in the ny subway can enjoy it as much as you do.

By: ann michael

ann michael — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:07:22 +0000

Personally, I default to the BBC as my home page and love to get British (as opposed to US) news. I find it to be a very different perspective. You haven’t lived until you’ve watched Prime Minister’s Questions on CSPAN. It’s a riot!

By: Duneview

Duneview — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:51:21 +0000

The tension is getting unbearable.

I have “before July 1″ in the “Jeff Finally Posts All Brit” pool and so far today we’ve got 5 postings – all dripping in fish n’ chips. Only a few hours to go…