What happened to Globe and Mail newspapers in domestic MLL (and perhaps flights)?
Nov 29, 2019, 10:14 am
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Nov 29, 2019, 10:18 am
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No. Many people are aware of the benefits of a paper-based user interface, and many realize that news and current awareness, including opinion pieces (and comics and the cryptic crossword), do not expire at midnight.
Nov 29, 2019, 10:20 am
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Crap. Now you tell me! I always rush to get my G&M sudoku completed before midnight, even if it takes me 15 hours. But luckily sometimes it takes a few mins.
Nov 29, 2019, 10:22 am
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Nov 29, 2019, 2:19 pm
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It's just so damn outdated by the time you get it. Even the opinion pieces and other things you mention where posted online the day before. Reading a paper is actually the exact opposite of "news" or "current awareness". News, of course, stands for newly received - something that news print no longer is (frankly I don't think it's even right to call it a newspaper anymore with current publications being almost instantly online), if you understand where the name news came from, it actually no longer makes sense to call it a newspaper, and it's not current awareness either - it's awareness of what happened yesterday.
Nov 29, 2019, 2:34 pm
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In other MLLs, I have observed staff toss out any/every newspaper that has been removed from the stack, no matter how pristine it may be.
Dec 1, 2019, 6:13 am
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Dec 1, 2019, 1:20 pm
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Dec 5, 2019, 12:37 pm
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And a reminder of this thread and OP from June 2018
Air Canada sees end date in sight for onboard newspapers
Also @ACYYZ/SD posted this upthread
And he posted this on June 25, 2018 in the other thread linked above
Air Canada sees end date in sight for onboard newspapers
https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2018/0...rd-newspapers/
Air Canada, confirms it is eyeing an end date for the distribution of newspapers, with company VP, products Andrew Yiu telling Runway Girl Network that the carrier boards a lot of newspapers “but is getting a lot of wastage because customers have already read it when they wake up” or accessed news via their smart phone or tablet. Even in the lounges, people are using their devices and “getting away from doing physical newspapers”. He believes the carrier will be able to remove paper newspapers from aircraft before the end of 2019.
Air Canada, confirms it is eyeing an end date for the distribution of newspapers, with company VP, products Andrew Yiu telling Runway Girl Network that the carrier boards a lot of newspapers “but is getting a lot of wastage because customers have already read it when they wake up” or accessed news via their smart phone or tablet. Even in the lounges, people are using their devices and “getting away from doing physical newspapers”. He believes the carrier will be able to remove paper newspapers from aircraft before the end of 2019.
Also @ACYYZ/SD posted this upthread