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

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News have decided to stop delivery except on Fri.-Sunday and provide an email version the other days.  The Detroit economy caused them to do this but it may be an unintended  life saver for them.

John DeGroat
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>
> > 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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