History repeats: Prohibition comes to an end.
Ah, Thursday. When we get to say “Hello” to our old friends at SEE, Vue, and the Edmonton Examiner. Then we can forget about them for another week.
You know, I had an interesting thought not that long ago. I think I’ve even shared it with a few people. If printing newspapers continues to be an expensive task, and more news goes online, why couldn’t some of our dailies become weeklies?
We already have SEE, Vue, and the Examiner publishing once each week. If Metro became a daily, then the Sun, and the Journal, we’d have six newspapers to read every week. If the Sun and Journal banged out two issues a week, we’d have at least one paper to read every day.
And they’d be able to focus on what they do best, filling the actual hard copy of their publication with the most valuable, more in-depth stuff they could come up with each week. That is, they wouldn’t all cover all of the same stories all of the time.
Essentially, like SEE and Vue, they’d all become magazines of a sort. Just a thought to kick around.
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If you’ve been around here for awhile you know why I’m linking to this one.)
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Environmental fallout (Syncrude’s duck deaths and what it could mean. This is also a good time to mention that Vue is producing podcasts.)
Who was David Swann talking to?
We need more car-free streets – and one less airport
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Downtown living (There’s that party tent again.)
And in other news…the great beaver uprising has begun, in Red Deer…
I love the idea of a twice- or thrice-weekly hard copy of the newspaper! Just an honest question, though: how would a move like that effect their advertising revenues? Do the papers still make the bulk of their ad money from the hard copies of the paper, or have those dollars slowly migrated to the online side?
I would suspect they might take a hit (going from 7 or 5 days to 1 or 2) but they could still charge for ads, just like a magazine. Maybe they’d charge more per ad, and/or kick up the quality of the printed version to be more like a magazine too, allowing them to charge even more.
I think, whatever they do, they better be migrating ad revenue to the online side.
Not to be a troll or anything but I think that the “Party Tent” mashed with hip hop artists will only bring more violence to that area.
It’s already bad, and despite people wanting to show there is a music scene in downtown (Wasn’t there always? There is a handful of venues in DT already) I hope they realize it’s just a 100% chance to get revisits from the douchebags who already stain that area of town.
/bitter
Thanks for pointing people to the podcasts! They come out every Monday.
No problem, Sam. Are you guys on iTunes? (I could just search when I get home, but I’m lazy and just going to ask.)
I’m surprised Prohibition lasted as long as it did, to be honest. The whole “indoor bocce ball” thing was the biggest overnight fad I’ve seen in a long time.