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September 21, 2006
New York Times: Fact or Fiction?
It's hard to tell, of course. The NY Observer reports that the Times is concerned, in the words of its design director, that readers "may get confused as to what stories are meant to have an individual voice, and which ones are straight news stories." And apparently they are serious. So the paper is trying to better delineate things, using page margins and justifications. The NYO straightens things out: "Straight news will remain, well, straight: laid out in justified columns, with even margins on the left and right. Stories that have been colored by analysis, commentary or authorial whimsy will all receive the layout previously reserved for columns: a straight left margin and a ragged right one.... So: News has even edges; opinion has an uneven edge. Except, that is, on the opinion pages. There, the columns will be justified like news, as always."
All of which means the NYT is still great for cleaning windows. Let's keep an eye out for ragged right-edged columns in the "news" pages, shall we?
Posted by bill at September 21, 2006 12:24 PM
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