Is it a newspaper or an adpaper?

Enough is enough...

Aside from having obsolete news and paid editorial coverage, newspapers bombard you by an endless number of pages of ads, ads and ads.. Today's Gulf News main section had 22 page-ads out of total 31 pages leaving only 9 pages of stale news. Those of you who like to see the main page for 'breaking or top news' can also say farewell to that since every single issue now has a full page ad on the main cover...

Let's get this straight. Everything you need to know you've most probably already either browsed on the internet or your Blackberry or have seen on TV news channels. The newspaper is full of ads and stale news. Editorial is either paid for or 'borrowed'. So why do we need this kind of newspaper?


What happened to newspapers here? They are clearly a thing of the past and a waste of money for those who subscribe to them and advertise in them. To top things, each issue is an environmental hazard with alomost 1 kg of paper that you virtually throw after 5 minutes.

It's not fair to the environment, to the readers and to the advertisers. No one is actually getting any value out of this kind of newspaper. Compare to the likes of Financial Times and Wall Street Journal where you can read the newspaper from cover to cover and be truely fulfilled and more informed and all you want to do afterwards is never hold an issue of these local papers again..