Toronto Sun, worst newspaper around?

papasmerf

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Read the Buffalo News if you want a substandard paper
 

great bear

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papasmerf said:
Surely you folks have never read the Buffalo News. Where the staff assumes the readership is liberal and stupid. Ok the 2 might go together
Your assuming the people in Buffalo can read? They sure as hell cannot spell.
 

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I don't understand?

If you don't like a certain newspaper...why read it?

Personally I am offended at times by the Toronto Star.... I refuse to read any editorials or commentaries in the Liberal ooops I mean the Star.

I don't watch TV shows that I don't like, I don't eat at restaurants that I don't like... and I won't read something that I don't like.



Regards
Owner of the Toronto Sun...:D
 

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I have not bought any newspapers at all in years. I get them all for free at my office. For me and over 1/2 the office staff here all of them are really only good for washroom floor coverings. Cause that is almost always where they ALL end up.


The Sun I noticed though is often 'stuck' right to the floor. Must be something they put in the ink. :eek:
 

great bear

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TheNiteHwk said:
I have not bought any newspapers at all in years. I get them all for free at my office. For me and over 1/2 the office staff here all of them are really only good for washroom floor coverings. Cause that is almost always where they ALL end up. :p
So, are you suggesting that you go to the john to read?
 

greenii

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The Sun should save money and only come out with one page with the sunshine girl on it..That is the only reason people buy it.
 

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MLAM said:
...of a newspaper that publishes photos of strippers everyday to increase readership, and has a large advertising section devoted to escorts, and does so without shame?

It is a rag...the worse I have ever seen in a city this size. I honestly can't say I've ever "read" it, because I laugh and SMH whenever I see a copy.

What a joke...
Kind of a hypocritical comment to be making on a message board like this one ,isnt it?
 

TheNiteHwk

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MLAM said:
...of a newspaper that publishes photos of strippers everyday to increase readership, and has a large advertising section devoted to escorts, and does so without shame?

It is a rag...the worse I have ever seen in a city this size. I honestly can't say I've ever "read" it, because I laugh and SMH whenever I see a copy.

What a joke...
I agree... but it's a rag that collects MILLIONS of $$$ a year for all those adult ads. I know the cost of those little three line ads that you can barley read. So one day just for fun I added up the revenue they make on each page and times it X's 365. If I remember right it was around ... are you ready?


$$25 Million$$ per year they are making on adult ads only.
 

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TheNiteHwk said:
I agree... but it's a rag that collects MILLIONS of $$$ a year for all those adult ads. I know the cost of those little three line ads that you can barley read. So one day just for fun I added up the revenue they make on each page and times it X's 365. If I remember right it was around ... are you ready?


$$25 Million$$ per year they are making on adult ads only.
holy crap?! 25 million a year? is that the standard price for classified ads or do they jack it up for adult ads?

Another thing I noticed (i bought breakfast at mc-d's this morning and just came back from a diner that had the sun), the sun has no business section at all. Come to think of it, the only consistant article that i remember seeing is stuff about gas prices. I also skimmed through their classifieds and realised that if u want a "job" you would be looking in the sun classifieds, but if you wanted a "career" the jobs in the star and the globe + post would more suited.

Although I'd rather read the star than the sun, my ultimate favourite source of news information is the BBC. I dont know why but they seem to be the most centralist of the news sources.
 

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1hornychinaman said:
holy crap?! 25 million a year? is that the standard price for classified ads or do they jack it up for adult ads?

Yes the adult ads are jacked-up. Each three line ad is about $90. If you count them up and calculate one year... yes it equals about $25million$


Hey last year I myself did over $700,000.00 And albeit I am the #1 sales guy here... That's $700,000.00 in adult ads in one year sold by just one lonely guy.

P.S. No I don't work for The Sun.
 

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The Globe and Mail is the only newpaper that could argue to have university level writing.

The Sun is for people with an IQ below the triple digits. I can't stand the slanted journalism of the National Post.. same with the Star, but I do like their crosswords and word jumbles.
 

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I think the Sun needs to rebalance their bias. How about moving Michele Landsberg from the Star to the Sun? That should rebalance things in a hurry. Oh, but wait, she would single handedly eliminate the sunshine girl. Ok, bad idea.
 

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TheNiteHwk said:
I agree... but it's a rag that collects MILLIONS of $$$ a year for all those adult ads. I know the cost of those little three line ads that you can barley read. So one day just for fun I added up the revenue they make on each page and times it X's 365. If I remember right it was around ... are you ready?


$$25 Million$$ per year they are making on adult ads only.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Woe is me! Alas! Alack-a-Day! And how much do you collect? Oh the suffering you must feel!
 

benito

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20 years ago the sunshine girls were usually in lingere and kind of kinky, now they are in bikinis and just not as hot as they used to be.
I'd rather have the Sun than the Buffalo Snooze, at least there is some original content.
 

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mikeffd said:
The Globe and Mail is the only newspaper that could argue to have university level writing
That's not really a complement when you consider the shit writing you see in any campus newspaper. The problem is that journalism is dead. Journalism schools have been pumping "the medium is the message" crap and journalist graduate thinking "I can make a difference" instead of "I can report the news". So you don't get the news all you get is rhetoric and spin.
 

goalie000

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Seems to me that all these people that "HATE" the Sun sure know a hell of a lot about the paper. They must read it very carefully to hate it so much.
 

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Aircraft said:
Oh! Oh! Oh! Woe is me! Alas! Alack-a-Day! And how much do you collect? Oh the suffering you must feel!

No skin off my nose. I don't work for The Sun. I do sell adult ads for another publication. I use to check the adult ads in The Sun for leads. I have since found better lead sources. One day I just added them up out of curiosity. At the end of the day though I don’t really give a shit what other publications are doing. It matters not to me and does not affect my bottom line. I posted just as a note of interest... not to cry about it.
 

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goalie000 said:
Seems to me that all these people that "HATE" the Sun sure know a hell of a lot about the paper. They must read it very carefully to hate it so much.
well, before you argue against something you should at least try going with it. It's like religious fanatics complaining about the DaVinci book/movie without reading or seeing it.
 

1hornychinaman

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goalie000 said:
Seems to me that all these people that "HATE" the Sun sure know a hell of a lot about the paper. They must read it very carefully to hate it so much.
plus reading the sun sure beats staring into space while i eat my big mac.
 
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