Tuesday, August 26, 2008
News / News Bites Scary dumb
Posted by Michael Miner on Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Here, thanks to Editor & Publisher, is a glimpse of what the Chicago Tribune might look like once it's redesigned. My guess is that whoever leaked this page-one prototype was hoping to head off disaster, and I pray he or she succeeds. Like everyone else, I make breezy allusions to the Trib. But when you get down to it, it's not the Trib I read and it's not the Trib I respect. It's a grown-up paper that calls itself the Tribune.
This front page is pathetic. You know those old guys who let what's left of their hair grow long and pull it into a ponytail, thinking that'll make it easier to score? That's how it's pathetic.
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"I would caution you against accepting anything you have as anything other than a work in progress," said Tribune Co. Senior Vice President/Corporate Relations Gary Weitman. When asked if the prototype was among those still being considered, he said: "We are just not talking about it until it is debuted." Pretty polished response. I'll guess it was floated out as an intentional trial balloon. If the majority of responses are like yours, Mr. Miner, we'll likely be seeing some more revision to this "work in progress."
I will cancel my subscription, pull my advertising and blacklist chicagotribune.com from my employees' Web browsers if they run with this or a similar flag.
"You know those old guys who let what's left of their hair grow long and pull it into a ponytail, thinking that'll make it easier to score? That's how it's pathetic." You need to put a pinky-ring on that fella to make him as pitiful as this half-witted atrocity. I hate you Sam Zell. -- SCAM
I can certainly see why they would want to mimic the Sun Times, seeing as how that paper is doing so well.
Does anyone know where I can pick up a case of New Coke?
What a travesty. Whither the Tribune?
Oh no. Why don't they just put "Tribune" on the current RedEye design and call it a day if new look is going to look that odd?
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