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ubss1990

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I do/did read the Wednesday Food section thoroughly, although that
section is seemingly changing too. With Bittman semi-retiring and far
fewer recipes, I'm losing interest. I haven't downloaded a recipe from
them in three weeks.

I wonder if downloading one recipe counts as reading one article.

What other major papers have good food sections?

Ken K
Walnut Creek, CA
 
Am 17.03.11 22:56, schrieb Ken Kozak:


AFAICS, every page view other than top news or start sections will count
as one article. So, I'm afraid we can forget about the Times. :-(

J?rgen.
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:56:24 -0700 (PDT), Ken Kozak
wrote:


Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't NYT go to free FROM Paywall a
while back b/c no one used them? Now they think people HAVE to have
it? I think they will be disappointed.

-goro-
 
Juergen Fenn wrote:

I have not heard anything about this from the NY Times, and im a free
subscriber.

I do wonder if it might not have to do with the use of the NYT archives
& searching its database?

Rather than a subscription fee.
--
JL
 
Juergen Fenn wrote:

Your interpretation is probly correct, but there is the statement about
'going to' the NYT site, and that will be charged for, i get the NYT
sent to me, as a daily digest in email which i can then click on any
particular link.

I rarely do more than scan the head lines. Though occasionally a story
or news article or editorial attracts my curiosity and i read the whole
article, but the site has been kind of buggy about that recently.
--
JL
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JL
 
In article
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Ken Kozak wrote:


The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Taste Section wins awards.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
On Mar 17, 9:25?pm, Goro wrote:


A friend and I were just talking about this at dinner tonight. He
suggested that it's only a matter of time until the newspaper as we
knew it ceases to exist anyway--The TIMES is preparing to move itself
into a different medium. I said they will lose many casual browsers,
but my friend countered that libraries across the country will prefer
to subscribe to the online service, as it will be easier than getting
actual issues and maintaining a file of them.

Initially, I imagine they will see a big drop in usage. Whether this
will eventually net them enough money to pay the people who provide
the content remains to be seen...
 
J wrote:

I thought real revenue in a newspaper was advertising?

And there's no NYT's online classifieds as far as i can tell and very
little other advertising.

Still, how can a service be structured so that an impulse buy may occur?
i did not routinely buy the NYT but occasionally did. But im not going
to go through the whole rigmarole of subscribing any time i might want a
NYT. Nor use a credit card or pay pal, maybe a postal money order? but
not every time i want to take a look at the NYT.

Given the NYT resources it seems to me it could put together a national
want adds or classified section & give Craig's List a run for its money.
--
JL
 
On 3/17/2011 4:56 PM, Ken Kozak wrote:

Our local newspaper changed about a year ago, and I think it stinks. We
had three food columnists who would post articles and recipes, one was
from the university health sciences center, so hers were healthy
recipes, but it was still nice to have them. Now, we get once recipe
per week, if we are lucky. I also read a Texas newspaper who is having
similar problems. They used to have a nice food section, but not
anymore. Newspapers are competing with cable TV and competition is
tough, I guess they can not afford food columnists anymore.

Becca
 
Christine Dabney wrote:


Yes! And there is also Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall! And Fergus
Henderson is featured fairly regularly - his recent interview on the
opening of his St John hotel is spectacular:
.
And Heston Blumenthal, who used to write for the Guardian (I posted some
of his recipes), is still featured regurlarly, too - typically with none
of that molecular gastronomy stuff, but with traditional, down-to-earth
recipes, etc. There is lots more.

Victor
 
On Mar 18, 3:46?pm, Ema Nymton wrote:

I stopped reading my food column - they published the same old repeats
for readers who e.g. never heard of Snickerdoodles.
 
On 3/18/2011 1:46 PM, Ema Nymton wrote:


I am really sick of newspapers cutting back on all news, opinion, and
special features because they "can't afford it".

When I look through the local paper it has fewer and fewer pages all the
time, but the pages that are left are 50-75% advertising. Where
does all that revenue go if they aren't paying correspondents,
columnists, etc?

gloria p
 
"gloria.p" wrote

Ink, paper, press time, trucks, rent, lights, heat and more. Ad revenue is
way down and cost is way up. Ad prices are based of readership. The same
ad that you see in a paper with 200,000 readers cost far more to place than
one that get 10,000 views. Even though you see the same printed space, as
readership declines, revenue declines. A lot.
 
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