The Times of London Goes Tabloid

[Bossy Monkey]

Nov 1, 2:34 PM EST

The Times of London Goes Tabloid

LONDON (AP) -- To make sure nobody missed its big change from a broadsheet to a tabloid, The Times of London told readers about it on the front page.

On Saturday, a notice at the top of page 1 said, "The Times - the last broadsheet edition."

Readers picking up the Monday edition read a new notice in the same space, saying: "The Times - the compact newspaper."

In going tabloid, The Times became the second major British paper to move to the smaller, more commuter-friendly format in a bid to reverse slumping sales.
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Notttttt that I needed more reasons to hate Rupert Murdoch... Any bets on whether they'll have Page 3 girls?

[AlCzervik]

1. "easy to read format" for the masses

i like a broadsheet.

[Taxloss]

2. The Times doesn't like the word "tabloid".

It prefers the word "compact".

All UK broadsheets are changing size - it's a strange time. The Guardian will remain the largest - it's shifting to a "Berliner" format, which is a bit smaller than a broadsheet and larger than a tabloid. Good on it. Rise above the other rags.

[mr blur]

3. Just part of the great dumbing-down process.

Anyone who has trouble figuring out how to turn over the pages of a "big" newspaper is probably too dumb to read it anyway. They should be getting their "news" in easily-digestable Americanised sound bites from Murdoch's Sky News... oh, wait a minutes, they are anyway.

[Lucille]

4. It's own by Rupert Murdoch

Tabloid is what he does best.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Actually The Times was the 1st British paper to have a topless woman in it

long before Murdoch got his hands on it. It was an advert.

[Taxloss]

6. "The paper of record"

And that's a record!