At 7:10 PM -0800 6/23/98, Suzanne wrote:
>Kathy wrote:
>
>>I said they look "alike" -- there is a look to a newspaper that
>>differentiates it from a "tabloid" and a "magazine" (although the
>>Economist calls itself a newspaper).
>
>Forgive me, but I can't resist the urge to pick nits since I was a designer
>for the Charlotte Observer newspaper some years ago. In those days, before
>the British tabloids (in particular) tarnished the image of tabloids, the
>term "tabloid" referred to the *size* of the newspaper, not the layout
>style or content.
true -- but today you have to admit that it refers to a class of
newspapers, yes?
>>And yes, the NYT has a "drier" look that USA Today, for example, but
>>they both "look like" newspapers.
>
>When USA Today first hit the newstands, it was thought to look like
>anything *but* a newspaper, and was widely scorned and criticized by
>newspaper folk.... those same newspaper folk who have now redesigned their
>papers after the USA Today model.
yeah, yeah -- i realized too late that it was probably a poor choice -- the
main thing USA Today added was color. well, and short news bite stories.
kathy
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