Keep off the grass
Do you know how much I hate it when any other part of the paper encroaches on my territory? OK, b (I refuse to put the name in bold as it does; is that childish of me?) isn't exactly part of the paper, but still.
Anyway, b's cover story is on places to eat outdoors. I know that's of interest to many of you, so I feel compelled to link to it. Don't say I don't take care of you.
Would it be childish of me to capitalize the b?
I guess so.
(Elizabeth Malby/Sun photographer)
Comments
And this is supposed to impress us because...? Gotta say I don't get b. What IS its purpose anyway--Sun lite? Feh.
Posted by: Dottie | June 25, 2008 3:09 PM
I didn't think that those who read b could count to ten.
That paper makes USA Today look like the New York Times.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | June 25, 2008 4:59 PM
I just can't bring myself to even look at b. Then again, I'm not the target audience, either.
Posted by: Lissa | June 25, 2008 9:38 PM
Since you were kind enough to provide the link, I did visit b (b B, whatever) and was struck by its idiocy. In the electronic version (which has no cost associated with the size of an article) it is mentioned that a sidebar article appears in the print version, but not the electronic. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that rather backwards. Expand the cheap one, not the expensive to produce one. And the list seemed quite exhaustive (tongue firmly in cheek.)
Posted by: Robert | June 25, 2008 10:59 PM
I read b once, when I was last up in Baltimore. Didn't like it much either.
Posted by: Rob in PCB FL | June 26, 2008 11:18 AM
Ah, b. the daily conversation starts here...and by "conversation" we mean "roast." My girlfriend and i pick it up just for a good fifteen minutes' worth of laughter and amazement. I may be young and I may be hip (which I understand to be their target market), but I also appreciate good journalism. To me that doesn't mean reader-generated content, cotton-candy articles, vapid Sun summaries, and puns the likes of which InTouch wouldn't touch for headlines.
Whose idea was it to start a new paper at the same time you're laying off Sun workers non-stop?
Posted by: kabobhunter | June 26, 2008 11:47 AM
When I commuted to DC there was the washington post, and then there was this freebie by the washington post that just talked about events in the city, dining places, gossip/entertainment news. This was something you read on the metro because it was mindless and not at all thought provoking. They printed this sucker everyday!
Posted by: patty | June 26, 2008 12:38 PM
from b's site today:
"The bold experiment continues. Will Baltimore embrace their daily free tabloid on pixels the same as they have on paper?"
HAHAHA! 'Bold'? I guess sub-par writing, horrendous layout (both print and online) and not being in touch at all with what is going on in the city could be called bold...
I would really like to know what the make-up was of the deranged focus-group the big bosses consulted to come up with this crap.
and isn't it just nice to think they pilfered the Sun's coffers to be able to finance this rag.
oh, the irony...i have to enter the letter 'b' into the field below to place this comment. lol!
Posted by: K | June 26, 2008 2:50 PM