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

[cherron604 at aol.com]

What will become of leisurely breakfasts at the corner diner, or morning commutes on the el or commuter train, when we no longer have morning papers to occupy us ?

Will we return to polite conversation with those around us ?? Or will we see a retreat into everyone's personal iPod ?

And promise me it won't be CNN on a flat screen, repeating the same stories every 15 minutes (like it does now in our airports...)

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85?


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Sent: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 1:46 pm
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)



> 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

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