On Thursdays I like to pick up a newly printed copy of The Coast, head to my favourite coffee shop, get a drink and settle in for an hour or so of reading. I work my way through most of the articles, front to back, until I get to the very last line on the last page: “For Dan’s reply…visit thecoast.ca.”
I can understand the desire to attract traffic to the online portion of The Coast (which I also occasionally visit…when I’m on a computer) but I still enjoy reading printed media, like The Coast, and like to be able to read a complete article, such as Savage Love, in one sitting. It’s a nice break from the internet. It’s like watching a show on TV, reaching a cliffhanger and hearing “to find out what happens, watch the rest on our website.”
Please make room for Savage Love!
—Mike B., Halifax
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2009.
Editors: Please listen to Mike B., jrotszta, grrrr, and Bastard Fish. We want to read Savage Love in print.
“Having to get the end of Savage Love online is brutal. I go out and support print journalism and my reward is being made to access one of your paper’s most popular regulars online? Maybe I’ll just go to the Stranger and give them my ad eyeballs. Enough of this “online extra” bullshit. Let’s keep Savage Love in print where it belongs.
Should this be a Bitch?”
Posted by jrotszta on November 9, 2009 at 11:26 PM | Report this comment
“Here Here! The Coast is ruining everyone’s bedtime! We want to snuggle up and read the PAPER, not a lap-top screen! Bring back the last answers in print!”
Posted by grrrr on November 20, 2009 at 11:50 PM | Report this comment
“I posted a bitch about this a while back. Andy posted some bullshit about how the print medium is detrimental to the health of journalism.
Just print the fucking article in it’s entirety. It’s pretty lame when half the people reading the Coast only go to the one section that is outsourced, and yet the Coast refuses us even that.”
Posted by Bastard Fish on November 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM | Report this comment