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As a resident locally "served" by Newsday I can only ask: what were those 35 people thinking! Comparing Newsday to the NY Times does a disservice to the Times.
by forgotAgain 17y ago
As a resident locally "served" by Newsday I can only ask: what were those 35 people thinking!
Comparing Newsday to the NY Times does a disservice to the Times. Since being taken over by Cablevision, Newsday can best be described as the New York Knicks of media. It has become a throwaway add-on for Cablevision in its competition with Verizon Fios.
- joshwa 17y agoIn Newsday's geographic target area (Long Island, NY), if a news consumer is the type of reader who mainly reads news online, they'll go with the Times, or even the NY Post or Daily News online, rather than Newsday. Newsday's print readers (even before the Cablevision takeover) are the readers most likely to be still consuming print -- they skew older, less affluent, and less educated. Newsday's only competitive advantage content-wise, relative to the other NY papers, are hyper-local Long Island politics, culture listings, and classifieds. There just isn't any overlap between people interested in these things and people who consume most of their news online (AND are willing to pay for it).