Not sure if this is the right part of the board, but it is the closest to a "media" section.
The Times is now available as a tabloid sized newspaper in London.
Somehow, the pages being that size just does not seem right for The Times. The stories, even if they are the same, suddenly seem themselves more "tabloid" in the other sense. I've never been a big fan of the Times, but is this the way things are going now? How much longer does the Guardian have?
What do you lot think? Am I just being an old stick in the mud on this one? Course, I hardly ever actually read a physical version of the paper, but . . . (please put on your best grumpy old Englishman accent for this part) . . . "it just doesn't seem proper!"
Mark
Newspapers go to the tabloid size because it's cheaper.
The price of paper and lower subscriber numbers equal cutting back somewhere.
The first place they look for savings is in the cost of paper.
After that comes staff.
I think eventually they will all go to tabloid size.
I think they're just responding to modern times, people having to read in overcrowded tubes/trains etc. The Times really stopped becoming a traditional establishment paper when Rupert Murdoch took it over anyway. It will be interesting to see if The Times' rivals follow suit.
I even remember when The Daily/Sunday Express, The Mail and The News Of The World were full broadsheet size!!
Another sign of changing times is the slow death of the Sunday paper. These were so powerful at one time that they were almost separate entities from any daily paper with their own editorial teams etc. Now The Sunday Times, Telegraph etc. are increasingly integrated with their daily counterpart while the formerly only completely independent Sunday, The Observer has been bought and absorbed into The Guardian.
These days, it's the Saturday paper that's becoming much more popular and much more important. How I wish I could get one here with all the trimmings. Here in Toronto, some of the sections and the magazine are dropped because of weight - and they're still 12 bucks! Somebody recently brought me back a full Saturday Telegraph with all the sections and I was poring over it for days.
Okay, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it but I/we have a subscription to the Sunday Times newspaper. By the time it gets to Cow Hampshire, it's about a week old (just got the one form the 26th Sept). If anyone's really partial to any parts of it, just let me know... maybe we can work something out. Plus it will encourage me to read the thing during the month in which it arrives!
Too bad the crossword won't be going up on the bathroom wall anymore - one of the things I loved about Del Boy. o
Okay, perhaps that's a bit TMI, sorry.
Too bad the crossword won't be going up on the bathroom wall anymore - one of the things I loved about Del Boy. :o
Okay, perhaps that's a bit TMI, sorry.
:lol: :lol:
I think the bathroom wall is a great place for a crossword :lol: :wink:
I even remember when The Daily/Sunday Express, The Mail and The News Of The World were full broadsheet size!!
:lol: :lol: Yes, and wasnt it annoying and arm aching to hold up and read :wink: