Narrowing the "Viewpoint"

The incredible shrinking T-P opinion page. Bringing less and less content to fewer and fewer readers.

Update: The T-P, of course, is far from the only daily paper to "go cartoon"

The Tribune Co's Sam Zell says,

"we're going to roll out a different look and feel in each market, emphasizing what people are telling us they want in the research — charts, graphs, maps, lists."

In other words, according to Zell, it's the readers who are demanding less content from their daily paper. You're out there screaming for less news and opinion and more pretty pictures so the T-P and the Tribune Co are happily bringing that to you.

Meanwhile, it seems the professional newsie types may disagree... but that just means they're out of touch with the popular "Viewpoint" doesn't it?