Looks like the new ownership isn't going to do anything improve the failing quality or reputation of the Free Press.
1) I noticed today that they are now inserting advertising as news stories. The ads use the same font & page formatting, and are inserted into the "news" portion of their web site. The only way one can tell it's an ad is where it would be labeled as "opinion" or "editorial", it's labeled as "sponsored" - they don't even come out and tell you straight that it's advertising.
http://www.lfpress.com/2015/05/14/thomps...tep-product-for-protecting-exterior-wood
I can hardly wait for political parties to start using this.
2) This was actually an article in their front page today:
"Grandmother, 102, loses dentures while blowing out bday candles"
The Freep really has become a garbage publication. I wouldn't pay a penny for it.
I read a great quote today in an article about Elon Musk, lamenting the decline of such things:
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.””
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