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    Granny says:
    Sunday June 01st 2008, 9:58 pm
    Filed under: media

    “They’re making the newspaper smaller at the same time that the readers’ eyes are getting worse.”

    Why don’t newspapers switch to large print summaries of the previous day’s news?



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    Isn’t that pretty much what they do now?

    When I bring in the Sentinel in the morning, I (when I have time to peruse it) notice all the articles are recaps of the previous days’ top stories I usually already know about from the web that previous day. But newspapers seem to have a better feel for encapsulating the stories than blogs and other online news services do - less rambling, more focused. Of course, limited space forces one to be a better writer so that’s not surprising. I also always find a couple of surprises that I didn’t see the day before, nor likely would have even if I’d been looking.

    I don’t think newspapers need to change at all, really. By the time we get them, the news itself is old so we already know the vital stats - it’s the rest of the info that’s difficult to deliver online that keeps newspapers valuable.

    Comment by Barry 06.02.08 @ 2:51 pm



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