Change All Around
Woman in the Middle | October 4, 2016I opened my local newspaper yesterday and, right on the front page, was an article explaining how they are changing the paper to make it more what the readers want. Oh no…..
It seems they did a survey. I wasn’t part of that survey, but they say they surveyed readers. Based on that survey, they kicked some comic strips to the curb and brought in new ones. Sigh. They got rid of one of my favorites! But, then, no one asked me. On the good side, they brought in Dear Abby and got rid of the crazy chick who replaced the “Annie’s Mailbox” ladies. She did not give good advice!
I have been through the comic strip shuffle before. I survived then and I will survive now. But I will miss Jump Start, all the kids, and the sockness monster.
If that wasn’t enough change in my life for one week, I went to look at the People magazine website this morning and it is all redone as well. Seriously, it was annoying!!! Before, they just has a running feed of the latest bits. Now it is all over the place in fifteen different places on the home page. Guess I will have to get my gossip someplace else!
This seems to be my week for changes in reading material. Now, if CNN changes their page I am just going to give up!
In this context, I hate change! Our newspaper has reduced comics to a third of a page. Only on of my favs “Mutts” has hung in. Who do they survey? It’s us “older folks” who actually read it.
That was what I was wondering. Who got surveyed?
I read somewhere that with lunar eclipses come changes. Well, we just had a lunar eclipse . . . .
With the Press, I think it’s about saving money. The new owners are turning our paper into a clone of the Sun! Hate the new crossword puzzle format. Why change that? it is the one the Sun uses. Comics too are same as in the Sun. I do like having For Better or For Worse back, but will miss Jump Start. We’ll just have to read them online.
I agree. I like having For Better or Worse back. But the other new ones, not so much.