Comments on: Sneak preview of The Times http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/04/16/sneak-preview-of-the-times/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Karl http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/04/16/sneak-preview-of-the-times/#comment-45250 Karl Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:43:18 +0000 http://www.big.co.za/wordpress/?p=184#comment-45250 Am I alone in wondering what the people behind 'The Times' have been doing for that last two months? Few launch newspapers have had a longer lead-in time than this new freesheet and what they served up on Tuesday of last week could have been produced six to seven weeks ago. It's bland and vanilla; completely devoid of any kind of attitude purpose and, it would appear, much advertising. There are more podcasts than you can shake a dodgy Telkom broadband connection at on the website though. Am I alone in wondering what the people behind ‘The Times’ have been doing for that last two months?

Few launch newspapers have had a longer lead-in time than this new freesheet and what they served up on Tuesday of last week could have been produced six to seven weeks ago. It’s bland and vanilla; completely devoid of any kind of attitude purpose and, it would appear, much advertising.

There are more podcasts than you can shake a dodgy Telkom broadband connection at on the website though.

]]> By: Chris http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/04/16/sneak-preview-of-the-times/#comment-32730 Chris Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:50:47 +0000 http://www.big.co.za/wordpress/?p=184#comment-32730 I think it's high time we had a decent, newsy tabloid with decent layout to challenge The Star and The Citizen. They've been complacent for far too long, and have become hoary, tired and not terribly interesting to read. I have a feeling that advertisers will happily come to the party if they know that the daily will be distributed free to at least 120 000 homes, equalling at least twice as many readers. It's a captive, guaranteed audience (of upper LSMs, I'd imagine). I think it’s high time we had a decent, newsy tabloid with decent layout to challenge The Star and The Citizen. They’ve been complacent for far too long, and have become hoary, tired and not terribly interesting to read.
I have a feeling that advertisers will happily come to the party if they know that the daily will be distributed free to at least 120 000 homes, equalling at least twice as many readers. It’s a captive, guaranteed audience (of upper LSMs, I’d imagine).

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