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>And the medicore ones who lose their jobs can always >apply at the Trib, where they don't know the >difference. > >>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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