[NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)

[Tom Maycock]

> Instead they just
> lower the
> quality of their product and hasten their demise.

I have to say, I think that sums up the status of the Chicago Tribune at the moment. Their recent redesign seems to have been a fairly desperate measure, and the results were not good in my opinion. 

The cost-cutting has made for a less-readable, less interesting product that feels like it is almost all advertising. Meanwhile, the design changes, presumably intended to attract new readers, seemed to lean towards emulating the sorts of things that websites are better at than newspapers to begin with. 

I feel for them, and certainly don't know what the solution is, but I'm pretty sure the new design wasn't it. 

Reading the morning paper is one of the great simple pleasures in life, but I suspect we'll be ending our Trib subscription in the near future.

Tom