Comments on The Times’ New Format

Subheads for the television generation?

Apparently, Times’ management feels its readers are either too busy or too lazy to read an entire article before getting a capsulized account of the story beforehand.

By summarizing a story into one boldly printed, long-winded sentence beneath the headline, you have not only insulted the intelligence of your readers but have brought your paper closer to USA Today than the New York Times. Perhaps, Ronald Reagan’s advisers deemed it necessary to reduce the most complex issues into a simple sentence, but you should give the average citizen more credit.

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