Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Honey, they shrank the Times
Have you seen the new and improved New York Times? It's weird. Just a tad smaller but enough to (supposedly) save several million dollars and make it feel really odd in your hands. I keep hearing that the Times is in trouble and advertising revenue is down, etc., etc., blah, blah. When will they acknowledge and accept that their reporting is so skewed that fewer people want to take the time to deal with it. Me, for example. I love the special sections. Love them. Escapes, Circuits, Dining, Home, Arts, Science . . . but I can't stand the dead bodies on the front page nearly every day nor their relentless criticize-America news coverage. A friend of mine says it's all been downhill for them since they stopped printing their excellent TV guide insert, and he has a point. It was fantastic, the only printed guide that worked. But it's gone. And now they've raised the price by 20% and shrunk the paper size. It's all just too much (back of hand melodramatically pressed to forehead). I can usually snag a copy of the day's special section(s) on the train but that doesn't satisfy my crossword puzzle craving (and no other paper has as good crosswords, I have to admit). I thought about subscribing to the crossword puzzle, which is something they offer - just the puzzle - but would you believe they charge $40 a year JUST for the puzzle. Brother. Anyway, honey, sadly, I'm betting they'll be shrinking even more things about the Times soon.
Labels: headlines, reflections, writing
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