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Monday, August 6, 2007

It's dinky

The new, smaller New York Times is here:

Posted at 4:08 PM | Permalink

Comments (13)

The new version is the same length as the old, but a shorter width.

Posted by Jack Bog | August 6, 2007 3:59 PM

Bad news for birdcage owners.

Posted by Max | August 6, 2007 4:27 PM

The hardest thing to adjust to is that each column has been reduced in size, leaving fewer characters per line.

Posted by Jack Bog | August 6, 2007 4:38 PM

It seems a bit like a disappearing act. WSJ, too.

Posted by Allan L. | August 6, 2007 5:40 PM

It's a heck of lot easier to read now in the bathroom. It was just a bit too wide before. Now all is right in the world.

Posted by mrfearless47 | August 6, 2007 6:04 PM

heck of lot easier to read now in the bathroom

Next thing you know they'll be serving it up on a roll.

Posted by Allan L. | August 6, 2007 7:39 PM

Size matters.

Posted by Frank Dufay | August 6, 2007 7:55 PM

Perhaps the biggest impact is on the editorial and op-ed pages. Neither of those pages allow "jumps" to other pages, and so there's just less material there. On the editorial page, they've simply hacked away at the letters space -- reduced it by a third. They'll have more letters available on the web, yada yada, but that's how that cookie crumbled.

Over on the op-ed page, it looks like simply one fewer article, every day.

Posted by Jack Bog | August 7, 2007 12:28 AM

Sadly, but purely an economic decision, as with the WSJ earlier this year. It amounts to a greater proportion of advertising and a corresponding reduction in editorial content.

It was interesting to see the "spin" by the editors of both newspapers.

We can and will continue to see these "cuts" in the future, with all newspapers and print publications.

Over in the high-tech sector, where I work, many long-standing and traditional tech print publications, such as InfoWorld, have totally curtailed their print editions entirely (Computerworld is soon to follow), moving to a web-only format.

Posted by Gerry Van Zandt | August 7, 2007 12:52 AM

Soon it won't matter anyway.

Posted by Chris Snethen | August 7, 2007 4:18 PM

"The hardest thing to adjust to is that each column has been reduced in size, leaving fewer characters per line."
Nothing worse than fewer characters....I like characters! Bring 'em on.

Posted by kathe w. | August 7, 2007 10:32 PM

It surprises me you subscribe to it, Jack. Even when it fit its print with all the news, none of the fake fears, out-of-town got no Metro section -- never had it, never will -- the part that matters.

Alas, they coulda been a contender.

Whatever. When I dropped it after thirty-odd years, the sense of loss rivaled losing my infantile security blanket to a younger sibling.

Speaking of 'junior' ... Print is Dead blog, scroll down: “‘I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care, either,’ [junior Sulzberger] says. ... The Times has doubled its online readership, and now has 1.1 million subscribing to the print edition - and 1.5 million readers online, each day.”

Same blog, unscrolling the scroll farther down, or quick click it, finds the first verse, PoIT, reprised in the second place NY Times, ya, you betcha: "... the world’s oldest newspaper still in publication, Sweden’s Post och Inrikes Tidningar (or PoIT, as it’s known), which will stop producing print editions ...," [clink link] "A Distinctly Modern Demise for the World’s Oldest Newspaper, By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, February 5, 2007 -- The Swedes, who jumped into the newspaper game back in 1645, are taking another great leap forward: what is said to be the oldest newspaper in the world has gone digital and is now available online, and online only. ..."

Posted by Tenskwatawa | August 8, 2007 9:26 PM

US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll, Aug 9.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.

And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism ...

Posted by Tenskwatawa | August 9, 2007 9:14 PM

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Garda Chiaretto Rose
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Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
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Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
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Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
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B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
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Avia Cabernet 2004
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Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
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J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
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Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
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Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
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Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
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Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
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D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
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Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
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La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
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Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
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At this date last year: 15
Total run in 2011: 113
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