Today’s edition of the Montreal Gazette’s cover was plastered with a large article that almost filled the page. About hockey. What the fuck, I’m now paying for Hockey Today? Why must I pay for Hockey Today?
I’m very grateful to you nice folk who entertain some sport or other — I don’t now but have been known to — but plastering hockey on the front page of the only English language daily in Quebec, as opposed to actually REPORTING SOMETHING, is a crime.
This . . . THIS . . . is what they’ve been reduced to? I wrote my contact at the Gazette a few months back and he wrote me that “Things here are tight, good luck getting your ideas to the right people.” Boy, was he right.
That paper has become so much kindling for dwindling grills.
But HOCKEY filling the front page? How slow can a slow news day get?
Or is it just me. Yes, it’s JUST ME.
That’s it — the Gazette is now bye-bye. Bye-bye, you fucking excuse for an English-language newspaper in Quebec. Today's edition merely signed your death knell.
I should read "Allo Police" instead.
Sad, ain't it? We subscribe because I like the comics, food section, homes section and arts & living, but that's it. I'm getting fed up with them myself. After all, I can read the comics online.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I also read the stupid advice column, but only the questions because the "advice" they give is always so LAME.
That paper is like candy to me. I don't read it for news coverage!!!
Well, I swear I used to always say "Damn, I like to feel some paper in my hand" instead of staring into a computer screen, but really, they're doing themselves in. Going in the wrong direction.
ReplyDeleteSports? Sports? There are fifty sports channels on TV. Rafael Nadal Beat Venus Williams 1-9 -- who the fuck cares? I PAY 1.40 for my copy of the Gazette.
Stop fucking around and get some real talent, some real ideas, some real reporting. There is plenty of it in Montreal.
Stop trying to be, well, let's see, there's a litany of it: edgy, trendy, youthful, political, communitywise . . .
YOU CAN'T DO IT ALL. Just report on the news of the day, include some cartoons and some puzzles and just DO IT WELL, instead of doing everything mediocrely.
Rant over.
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