The New York Times reports today:
In an effort to survive industrywide financial straits, many newspapers have made cuts both large and small, reducing newsroom staff, paper sizes and even the daily printed stock listings that are readily available online.
But after torrents of reader complaints, two major papers said last week that they would restore some of those listings.
The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal both said last week that they would bring back some of the stock market tables to their papers.
They and several other dailies, including The New York Times, have recently trimmed those listings in their financial sections to reduce newsprint costs.
Wait a minute…
Could you please tell me exactly how many reader complaints constitutes “torrents?”
Is 20 a torrent?
Is 200 a torrent?
Is 2000 a torrent?
You better be more specific or, as I suspect, you are going to lose a lot of money in order to please an insignificant number of readers.
Perhaps it’s time to consider “jumps” as part of the complaint, too.
Readers around the world hate them!
But newspapers keep them.