Re: Media related, if not quite radio...

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@lily.org>]

You know that the real reason for them slimming down the paper is the
escalating cost of newsprint paper itself. :)  It's been happening
througout the years.  

Remember when most of the broadsheets were as wide as the Wall Street
Journal?  Tabloids were also much bigger page-wise than they are today and
the font was larger in some cases also, IIRC



 On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Scott D Fybush wrote:

> Has anyone seen USA Today today?  They've jumped on the Globe
> bandwagon (to be fair, it's a national thing) and slimmed down the
> width of the paper.  They've also introduced a (IMHO butt-ugly) 
> new font.

Sven F. Weil
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