I can honestly say I have never visited the Fox website, so it
definitely wasn't me even though I agree with the poster.
Let's face it, a LOT of publications do very well as shopper
publications (i.e. just ads) -- if you want another example in our
backyard just look at Night & Day Magazine. That publication stopped
doing reporting or articles several years ago and the lack of content
has only increased the amount of ad pages. Smaller than Tri-City (a
mini-tab as opposed to a tabloid paper), Night & Day easily is north of
80 pages every time out. But a recent skim of the last issue found only
two articles with bylines (other than columns from a politician and a
lawyer, which always leave me scratching my head as to why they are even
in the publication) and the rest being content that could be copied from
a phone book.
It used to bother me that publications based on content struggle so
much, but it's like that for many things. Original bands struggle to
make a buck while bands that only play covers can make a nice living.
The offensive thing is having people who have never seen TCN treat it in
the same manner as the NY Times or Washington Post. It is nothing like
a real paper. It's not even like a real city weekly. It is what it is
and it is successful at it. Just don't call it a newspaper...
justifiedright wrote:
>
> Someone left this post over at Fox:
>
> Comment by TillieFromAP
> December 30th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
> That Tri City News doesn't have news in it, just provincial blather
> and ads. You really can't compare that to a city daily.
>
>
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