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News Wed Dec 05 2007
Tribune to Sun-Times: Who's Bragging Now?
Or, "Reason Number 182 Why Newspapers Are Hemorrhaging Readers"
Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle, reports that the Chicago Sun-Times is cutting its Books section in half. This comes just a few months after the Trib moved its own Books section from Sundays to Saturdays, thus ensuring that it will never be read. After the move, Sun-Times began to crow about having "the only books section on Sunday." Maybe the new tagline should read, "now 50 percent less literate!" Way to go, Chicago papers.
