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on the matter of editorials: in the (uk) broadsheets they're often indistinguishable from the comment columns, but generally rather less interesting. i actually prefer the " x x is bad" style tabloid ones, which are surely closer to the point of editorials viz setting out the newspaper's "official" position.
(also does anyone read a newspaper for the editorials? in fact does anyone read the broadsheet editorials at all? i tend not to bother).
on tabloid vs broadsheet: tabloids tend to piss me off by not writing enough about anything, while broadsheets waste thousands of words on saying very little (it's an easy criticism to make, but sitting down and reading a weekend broadsheet cover to cover takes an entire day and imparts very little info for that investment). i can't really remember the days before 30 page second sections every day, but i can't help feeling that there must have been less filler articles back then. anyone who reads the G2 or equivalent every day and looks down on tabloid readers for reading about irrelevant pap is a fool.
also on the ny times' reliance on reuters etc: this is one of the things that always puts me off reading it (plus the layout - it looks like something out of the distant past! what is it with us newspapers looking so univiting compared to uk ones?). are uk newspapers any better? from memory i'd say "yes", but it could easily be that i haven't noticed/they're less good at crediting their sources. anyone?
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
also does anyone read a newspaper for the editorials?oh, drat, marginalized again!
― maura (maura), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
great point about the broadsheets toby...if i read The Guardian on a Saturday or Monday i find i probably actually only get through a third of it at best...how much time do they think we have? what i'd like best is a happy medium - broadsheet sensibilities in tabloid format...tho my favourite 'newspaper' is the London Metro cos its free, its just news and no opinions, and Claire Allfree is the best music journalist out there right now for me
― blueski, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
nineteen years pass...