Broadsheets - Big on News - BUT too Big for comfort ! (General Comments)

Name: Glasgow Girl

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Date:	30/10/00 (25 review reads)
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Advantages: Widespread coverage of the news

Disadvantages: Widespread bodies trying to read the blurry things !

I won’t mention any specific titles here, but you all know which newspapers I’m referring to.

Newspapers are an essential part of everyday life.
They give us all a view
(albeit, a ‘managed’ view)
of what is going on in the world
outside of our own.

They still have a place in modern society; even after the advent of the Internet and the globalisation of the media.

What they bring to our lives is sometimes entertaining, relevant and mind-exercising.

What does perplexes my simple mind however, is why - in this technological age,
this twenty-first century -
why do some of our ‘better quality’ newspapers insist on publishing
in the outdated, outmoded,
unmanageable ‘broadsheet’ format?

Watching the news on TV last night,
I was struck by the, habitually hilarious, consistently imbecilic, gymnastic ability called for from those attempting to read these broadsheet papers while
packed on board
the ‘transport of no delight’ -
the commuter train.

That caused me to wonder,
just where can you comfortably read
one of these fine publications?

When will the publishers stop clinging to this ‘life-raft’ of convention?

Just because a newspaper is a tabloid, doesn’t have to mean it is inferior or any less valid.

Surely we’ve gone through the newspaper Olympics for long enough now?

When will newspapers all be printed in a manageable format?

When!

GG

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