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>The problem is that the item that is offered for sale >on newsstands is increasingly slimmer and >insubstantial. The slimmer the daily issues become, >the fewer buyers there will be. The Wall Street >Journal can get away with charging for its online >content because the print version of the Journal (to >which the online version corresponds) is text-heavy >and substantial and rich in content. The printed >version of the P-G is text-light and increasingly >light-headed as well. The supplementary "premium" >features offered for 3.99 are mostly fluff--additional >work by writers whose columns and such in the print >edition are undistinguished to begin with (the online >dreck is the equilavent of "extra-credit" dreck that >some teachers, who prefer quantity to quality, let >their students get away with submitting). The P-G is >saying, in effect, "We know that our flimsy print >edition is crap, so we're going to offer you more crap >online at an additional price. We're going to spread >our mediocrity even thinner--in two media this time. >We hope that enough of you are suckers and will fall >for this hokum." To those of you who are journalists >and are worried about your continued employment >prospects: improve the quality of your work. Readers >are starving for intelligent reporting. Mediocre >writers are going to lose their jobs, yes, and they >won't be missed.

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