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      <title>Comments On: RedEye West?
    
      by Michael Miner</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark Forstneger]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Unlike New York and Chicago, Los Angeles' population relies more on automobiles than mass transit. I think that will be a major challenge for a free L.A. commuter newspaper.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:33:20 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[John Doe Again]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Now that The Reader has new owners you can bet their advertising reps will be all over town (or out the door) unlike the old days just waiting for the phone to ring and taking orders.Yes,The Onion,Red Eye,etc.all have different editorial content but share the same readers and advertising dollars.The Reader rested on their laurels way too long and the other media mentioned pounced on them,The Reader was above the fray sponsoring anything in this city but now splashes their logo on a number of events that they would have never touched,the owners just did not want to put up the good fight anymore and walked away with the cash,the owners were some of the richest hippies in this city,brownstones in Old Town,Lincoln Park,2nd homes on the coast of Maine,art collections that would rival most galleries and left a legacy and a logo for all to remember.My point was that the LA Weekly will put up the good fight and make it very difficult for a Red Eye West to succeed and make the Tribune spend more money to do so.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:06:55 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Me]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[An LA RED EYE will succeed.  Distribution will be focused on the places the non-daily newspaper reader frequents.  Costly yes, to create a new "habit" of reading this new LA Pub to these new former non-newpaper readers...but if you build it, they will come.  They did in NYC and Chicago.  Yes, it may happen quicker in a commuter city, but the bottom line is that you can capture this audience by delivering the news in a "Red Eye-ish" package-which is short, sweet, and at times interesting.  If you build it, they will come and stay. Commuter city or not.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:52:15 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Will...]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[They're comparing the Red Eye and Onion popularity to the Reader. It's not a logical comparison. All three are papers with three different missions. In fact one writer here calls The Red Eye and The Onion the "competition". That. to me, is laughable. Ok, fine in terms of advertising, yes, maybe they were going after the same dollars. But how is the Reader going to compete with the Onion, start printing funny fake stories? Or more Vince Vaughn pieces to compete with Red Eye? What exactly got "lazy" and "stupid" about the Reader? Their stories still had more local substance and value than the Red Eye has in its entire brief history.
        
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          Posted by Will...]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:35:40 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Will]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Doe is saying the Reader became lazy. It's not about IQ, Laughable; it's about trying harder. When the Reader was great, it wasn't stupid.
        
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          Posted by Will]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:21:11 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Laughable]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I can't believe people are using the dubious popularity of the Red Eye as an indication that the Reader was/is doing something wrong. What a bunch of idiots. The Red Eye is free and features easily digestable McNews about Paris Hilton on the cover on a daily basis, as well as hard-hitting exposes on where the coolest bars are. The fact that it is snapped up in lieu of real news says more about the self-absorbed low IQers who cram onto the Red Line train than it does about Reader management.
    
    Can't believe some here are chiding the Reader for not dumbing down to the Red Eye level to compete.
    
    Further indication that the human race is doomed...
        
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          Posted by Laughable]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:09:50 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Ian]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[An utterly awful mix of wire copy, gormless columnists with nothing to say and more celebrity puff than a month of US Weekly is, apparently, what the people want. 
    
    Sad and alarming in equal measure.
        
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          Posted by Ian]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:02:05 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Great, the papers are all gone]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[just confirms that the average mope on the street has the attention span and interest in real news of a gnat. The fact that the boxes of Red Eyes are empty prove nothing positive.
        
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          Posted by Great, the papers are all gone]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:34:34 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[John Doe]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'm sure the Heads Of State at Village Voice Media are not taking this lightly as The Chicago Reader did and ended their crown as the 3rd newspaper in this town,LA is vapid enough to embrace this simple and concise format so they don't have to weed through 25% of the front book with breast enhancement ads and another 25% of the back of the book with LA's finest escorts.Maybe if the Chicago Reader had taken their competition more seriously (Red Eye,The Onion,craigslist,Chicago Scene,Time Out,etc.)they would still have the same owners and a fighting chance of survival
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:21:02 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Clark Devon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Every RedEye box in Rogers Park is emptied out by early afternoon. I don't know where you're looking, but it sure ain't here!
        
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          Posted by Clark Devon]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:55:54 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Just an observer]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Like the product or not, keep dumping on RedEye.  Maybe someday you can find a way to base your opinions less on mere anecdotal and selective trainstop observations and maybe fold in a few numbers and actual research. No one picks up The Reader at a number of boxes I've seen while the RedEye boxes close by are always empty. That doesn't mean The Reader is dying on the vine ... or does it?
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:44:16 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[whet]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If it was a cross between a 50s gossip rag and Defamer it might find a (somewhat ironic) audience. If it takes RedEye's cretinous look at stardom it will be laughed out of town.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:58:38 -0500</pubDate> 
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