Post here if you’d like to see The Coast become a daily…..WE NEED A VOICE
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2008.
The Coast- (not a bitch)
Post here if you’d like to see The Coast become a daily…..WE NEED A VOICE
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well i say the paper weekly and the net daily if that makes any sense
I’m going to get madly bitched at for this…but…I think The Coast shoul stay how it is. I think it’ll lose its edge if it becomes daily. It’s completely different from papers like the chronicle or the Daily News (was). The coast (in my opinion, I could be wrong) seems to be read by teenager/university/college students and young adults…I like it how it is. Leave it be. 🙂
I agree with Jenn!
I also agree with Jenn and Deb. I work in the publishing world and if the Coast goes daily it gives Transcontinental one more reason to buy them up and do the same thing to them as they did the Daily News!!!!!Its all about $$$ to Transcon and they won’t stop until they own everything.
This city is to small to support two dailies. The world has moved on, you can get news from hundreds of different sources on the web to figure out what’s going in the world, and one daily is enough to get the local news and something like The Coast to get what’s what on the art & music scene.Besides, I’m thinking going from a weekly to a daily requires way more staff and resources than the Coast has. I’d rather read the good indepth articles weekly like it is now than a bunch of 100 word articles every day.
Definitely keep The Coast as a weekly paper. With Transcon giving out free papers every day now as I get on the ferry in Halifax, people might be reading the paper, but they’re also creating a lot more waste. The ferry is littered with papers that people get for free so they just leave them after flipping through it once. The Coast works because it is free, but only once a week, so you sit down and read the whole thing, then you take it home to keep so you know what’s going on for the rest of the week.If you have to pay for a paper, you make sure you get your money’s worth out of it. It doesn’t get left behind after a quick glance.