The new and improved NYTimes: Now, with “fewer words per page”
To save money, the NYTimes had reduced the width of its pages by an inch and a half (via E&P):
Over the years, The New York Times has tended to think big, but tomorrow it will have to adapt to a new smaller-is- beautiful era.
In a front page note to readers this morning, the paper stated that the print edition they will hold tomorrow will be decidedly more compact.
Beginning Monday, the Times “will reduce the width of its pages by an inch and a half,” to a 12-inch standard, the paper declared.
“The move will cut newsprint expenses and, in some printing press locations, will make special configurations unnecessary. Slight modifications in design will preserve the look and texture of The Times, with all existing features and sections, and” — it admitted at the end — “somewhat fewer words per page.”
The Times had originally planned to make the shift next March. It is far from the first paper to shrink in size in recent years — see USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and more — but the new look tomorrow promises to cause much comment.
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Maureen Dowd being cut would instantly making the NYT 500% less smug.
I’d suggest they cut out the reporting, but they beat me to that some time ago.
ZING!
Losing Paul Krugman, MoDo, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert and hiring a few sane columnists would greatly reduce readership shrinkage.
And to think, they charge people to read them online.
I wish they would do this to the L.A. Times, when it lands in the driveway it sounds like a Scud Missle hit.
I personally prefer the old size; considering it’s sole use in my home is for puppy training, the previous format gave more piddle space for the buck.
They’ll soon be out of business. Liberalism just isn’t profitable. I’m sure they’re asking themselves: “How did it come to this?”.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the final death spiral for a once great newspaper. The outright treason and sedition exposing many of our classified programs, which were actually working against the Terrorists and the extreme leftist views are bringing the chickens home to roost. They have lost the trust of Americans and we are displaying our displeasure with our wallets.
Exactly so and as it should be.
http://takeourcountryback-snooper.blogspot.com/2007/07/old-news-moonbatsmorons.html
Give it to me in tabloid format, please. I hate big flappy broadsheet newspapers. I always knock over my boiled eggs in the morning when I read them.
Yes, but how will this affect the crossword??
The only use I would have for the NYT would be lining my bird’s cage:-) Then again, if my bird started spouting off liberalisms in the dark, I would have to rename her ‘catfood’
If I lived in NY I might care… letmethinkaboutit.. nope.. still wouldn’t care.
Around here they sell the NYT. But the only ones you see with it are total tourists and absolute moonbats.
AJ, you CRACK me UP!
scud missile! What a way to start a Monday!!
Our local TV station’s website deletes any post that is against the left winged creatures.
And this is a RED STATE?????
I’m sure that many people have already suggested this brilliant move but if the New York Times would leave the paper’s formatting the way that it currently is, and then cut off the inch and a half, including whatever leftist words might be on it, circulation might just increase. Then they could continue cutting the paper down and maybe eventually circulation would level off as Americans try to play the latest game: decipher what the New York Times would’ve said today if it weren’t the size of a thimble.
What, like they’re doing any good now?
how about it just keeps sports and sodoku, and the TV listings?
…I’d say keep the crossword puzzle, but they’d fine a way to lib that up if they could.
Fewer words from the NYT’s seems to me to be a good thing.
Taylork good point, I bet if these geniuses at these newspapers just offered a (Section Subscription) they would reap more revenue than they think. I know for sure I would get just the sports from the LA Times for say 5 bucks a month….
sorry taylork, but even the crossword puzzles are tainted by Clinton Inc. and the radical left. I firmly believe that The New York Times is without credibility and without value. The best way for them to cut costs is to shut down all operations… but then again, if NYT shut down, how would we keep tabs on the liberals?
Smaller pages for small minds … sounds like a no-brainer to me …
LOL DL…
Less koolaid for the staff.
Thirteen and a half inches wide to twelve inches is around a ten percent reduction. Perhaps future reduction can be done by dropping every tenth letter or space. I do not elieve tha this woul create an problem ith conten.
Times are getting tough at the Times. What are they going to do next to save money?
If the NYT and LAT would leave out their “news” sections and just offer the sports, entertainment, home–and of course crossword puzzle–people might actually buy it.
It’s not the internet, NYT, we cancel because of your bias and propaganda.
And think of all the trees we save!
Yes!
Save the trees… stop getting the newspaper.
Moonbats should be able to get behind this one. Just need to sell it to the Goracle and the world can be saved and the NYT out of business.
What a great idea
Just means less trash in our landfills. Best thing the NYT has done in years.
Someone has to do it, I will defend the NY Times. First, most people who condemn it, don’t read it anyway. Second, I have read the Times every day (unless I was on vacation) for 25 years. There have been plenty of missteps–Jayson Blair and Judy “We got to destroy Iraq’s WMD” Miller are the worst examples. But, the Times investigated itself and their Executive and Managing Editors were fired for it. Too bad the Bush Administration doesn’t have the same accountability. Third, all most agree: The Times is far from perfect, but it’s the best overall newspaper in the U.S. and the paper of record. Fourth, just because MM was turned down for an internship at the Times while at college, should not mean she should constantly attack it.
If they’d cut the left side of the paper, maybe they’d sell more.
They could print their editorials on toilet paper. Sheryl Crow could have a mind/body experience one square at a time…
Shopping List
1. Smaller dog
2. Smaller birdcage
3. Smaller cooler
How can the insensitive NY Times editorial staff do this? Don’t they know that there are many homeless folks in NYC who depend on the Times for warmth? They’re making life for these folks even more difficult than it already is! Let’s lobby Congress to combat the trend of shrinking newspapers! Let’s start a government program or something. We’ll be federally subsidized in no time.
Feeling particularly sarcastic today…
When they get it down to 3 words or less let me know. Maybe then I’ll buy one.
Other than needing something specific in the paper, like a coupon, I still refuse to subsidize these socialists. I haven’t bought a paper just to read it in years, and I dearly enjoy watching their death spirals.
The NYT won’t go out of business – too many nutroots on that pestilent island to let her completely die. But she will become more and more marginalized. Oh, yes, that will be sweet to watch…
Sorry, taylork, but the NYT printed the wrong team names when they reported the results of the friggin’ World Series last year!
I don’t want to read a sports section that can’t even get the teams in the World Series correct. What I remember is that it made the local news that the NYT reported that the Cardinals defeated some team other than the Tigers in the World Series, but I can’t find anything about it by googling right now.
They did not need to shrink the physical size paper, all they needed to was cut out the Editoral section.
That’s funny Al, Sounds like our tiny lil paper here in the Desert “the Desert Scum” er Sun.
Why don’t they use invisible ink?
Now there’s a conservation tip.
The commie rag is about to bite it, bout time.
ajmontana
According to J.D. Hayworth our two newspapers should be called the East Valley Spittoon and the Arizona Repugnant … but even they are nothing close to the AQ Times …
They should reduce it to the size of a playing card and change the motto to ”
All the news that fits.” Of course I stole that motto from someone more clever than I am. If I had a better imagination, perhaps I could be a NYT reporter. Maybe they give points for plagiarism?
Mike B(in the bonnet)is spouting the “paper of record.” Record of what? All the manipulated news that’s unfit to print? World’s most notorious left leaning rag without falling over? And of course Mr. B(labber)couldn’t resist a shot at MM or GB. After admitting he has read it everyday for 25 years, we can see firsthand brainwashed, unable to think for themselves NYT droids that it has produced.
Maybe they should cut the stock price by 11%, too. That would be a good start.
The Jayson Blair Times has already been reduced to nothing intellectually and ethically, as well as financially under Pinchy, so until it is reduced to zero physically, it will remain a scourge.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/the-collapse-of-the-jayson-blair-times-palestinian-style/
eric
The Old Grey Lady isn’t shrinking, she’s getting osteoperosis.
From a media perspective, I can’t believe they missed a plum opportunity to appeal to their core base readership: they could have said that they were making the format smaller to save paper in solidarity with those who are attempting to save the forests as well as cut down on waste products destroying the planet. They must be getting slow.