As Corporate reportedly scrambles to develop a new cost-cutting plan in time for next week's showdown with Wall Street analysts, speculation has turned to what once would have been unthinkable: closing Monday editions, which have become tissue-thin in some markets. "Our Monday edition could easily be mistaken for a Pizza Hut flyer,'' one reader wrote, without specifying their worksite. "It's that thin. Wouldn't be surprised if it was canned.''
I've illustrated this post with today's Detroit Free Press front page; is its Monday edition a candidate for shuttering? What about your paper? Please post your replies in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green sidebar, upper right.
And now, for the youngsters in the audience . . .
[Image: today's Freep, Newseum]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Not publishing the Freep on Monday would be horrible PR. Besides, Detroit is a huge sports town and big-city Monday papers load up on weekend results.
ReplyDeleteHow could the freep not publish on Monday? We would miss all the stories about the latest Lions loss!
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