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I got my copy at lunch. It is definitely more USA Today than New York Times. It's clear to me why they reformatted this: advertising. Now they can run these detailed high color photos for ads. I got a section "B" in my paper that was just a 4 page ad for Dillard's. There was no actual content in the section. So I said "okay, right. Garbage." Why would anybody bother to look through that section if it is just ads?
The Sports page looks fine, but so does USA Today's. The problem is, when I buy USA Today, I pull out the Red Sports section and throw away the rest, because it is not worth the paper it is printed on. Well, in sections A & B, that's what we have now. Less words, more pretty pictures and graphics to surround the few words remaining. The blurbs on A-2 were so brief in "Today's Top 10" that it was little better than the top news links on Google News. The problem? Google News has links if I want to know more. The Newspaper of course does not. That's why the info is supposed to be right there.
I bet that a year from now, they jack up the price to $0.75 justified by these "improvements" just like USA TODAY did this year.
I don't know, If the paper continues to look like this, I may just grab the Sports section on occasion like I do with the McNews and get my other news elsewhere.
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~Albert Camus, The Plague.
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