Newspapers and the Future
I was reading the local Saturday newspaper, and I noticed yet again the increasing ratio of ads to articles on just about all pages. Except for the front page of each section, and a few other special pages (like the editorial page), this ratio is really getting out of control. The newspaper should be considered "ads with a few articles", not the other way around. In the front "news" section of the paper I think I went some ten pages in a row with only one, very small article on each page, with huge ad layuts covering the rest. Jeez... and they wonder why I only subscribe the Sunday paper (mostly to get the coupons in the Sunday ad inserts).
And this brings me to a nice item from Glen Reynolds, "Newspapers in Trouble?". Some good ideas there I think.
posted by Thomas R. Stone @ 9:31 AM
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I used to read several newspapers but now I don't. I buy the WSJ on Friday and occasionaly on Sat. for their culture section. I read the Washington Post on line. I get the WSJ's Opinion Journal online. I'm older but if I stopped buying and reading newspapers newspapers maybe gone as we know them.
The WSJ I pick up on Friday culture section has two or three pages of ads for some of the most expensive real estate I have ever seen. I find it hard to believe that the people who can afford this kind of real estate would need to look in a newspaper.
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