tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514703016498961093.post3779870181186068241..comments2024-01-21T13:41:55.986-05:00Comments on The Real Muck: Newspapers: Sun lies?David Ettlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00858701708865222941noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514703016498961093.post-23383878402667315382009-05-12T06:39:00.000-04:002009-05-12T06:39:00.000-04:00Not to minimize the pain and suffering of the 61 n...Not to minimize the pain and suffering of the 61 newly-former Sun employees, but to me the low point of the past several weeks was the obvious dissembling of the reader's note you quote above. There were many ways to acknowledge the change; saying it was for readability was an unnecessary lie. <br /><br />All a news organization has is its reputation for truth. Beyond that clear line lies Pravda and the house organs of a dozen Banana Republics.Tim Windsorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00724144856429510796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514703016498961093.post-22301892758838640012009-05-12T06:15:00.000-04:002009-05-12T06:15:00.000-04:00Didn't The Sun pay a bazillion dollars to have som...Didn't The Sun pay a bazillion dollars to have someone create the "Mencken" font used "exclusively" by the paper? Seems to me at that time the Mencken font was praised for it's "readability."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514703016498961093.post-71146537768030433192009-05-11T22:42:00.000-04:002009-05-11T22:42:00.000-04:00The advent of USA Today Lite with ugly typeface an...The advent of USA Today Lite with ugly typeface and graphics. Yeah, that'll work.Stephen Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241095804692880152noreply@blogger.com