More on relocated features
We’re still getting a few calls about the changes in our features sections, with the biggest complaint being that the comics and features are hard to find.
We know that Thursday’s paper presents the greatest challenge to readers, because the comics, puzzles, advice columns, etc. are located in the middle of the tabloid-shaped Get Out section. (Similar to Saturday, when those features also appear in the tabloid-shaped edition.)
The comics, etc. are located daily in the features section of the paper. Not main news, not Sports, not Business, not Metro. They are in the features section every day, whatever shape that section may be.
We are hoping that finding these features becomes routine very soon. The frustration some are experiencing isn’t lost on us.
Here’s part of the note we ran when we first announced the changes: We’re folding the standing features of our Everyday section into our weekly features sections. We’re doing this because we believe that the more targeted our features sections are, the better they are. And that by combining strong sections with all of your favorite daily features - the comics, puzzles, advice columnists, TV listings, horoscopes and movie listings - will make the sections even more popular. So there will be a new home for all of your Everyday favorites.
I’m old enough to remember when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was a world-class newspaper. After being gone for 30 years or so, I recently retired and moved back to Missouri. I found the Post to be a disappointment. It was a shadow of the newspaper I remembered. It looks cheap, the reporting seems shallow, the writing amateurish and the editorials uninspired. The question of where to find the comics seems to be a pretty minor problem to me. I’m trying to find where you put the newspaper.