Conventions. In Europe, broadsheet formats signal seriousness - while the smaller tabloid ones signal a more low-brow and sensationist style.
On topic: The papers all suck.
Off topic: Hey Monkey, glad to see all those hours of wearing lipstick and a dress while giving backrubs and handjobs have finally paid off – nice bike! 
Conventions. In Europe, broadsheet formats signal seriousness - while the smaller tabloid ones signal a more low-brow and sensationist style.[/quote]
Yeah guys who read the broadsheets do so in taxis or limos.
A good example is the “Daily Torygraph” versus “The Sun” in the UK.
I think that a tabloid in tabloid format would be a good idea here. But that market is probably cornered by Jimmy Lai.
I rode the tube but no way would I read that shite tabloid trying to be a broadsheet the Evening Standard.
Yes, the “Evening Standard” Only read it once and that was in '91. Seemed an odd concept to me - The same thing was later tried out in DK - and fell miserably flat on its face.
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I realize the papers are bad here, and the TT management in particular, but I never dreamed of the day that people would be complaining about the physical dimentions of the papers… :shock:
Maybe the ink should be blacker… 
The complaint was a generic complaint, directed at all standard-sized newspapers, not only the papers in Taiwan. 
You’ve never fumbled with a newspaper on a crowded train or bus?
That’s why I seldom buy them. Then again, the English papers in Taiwan are thin enough that their dimensions aren’t much of a problem. My biggest problem with them is that the weekend editions are too thin.
People make way for me. 
Little wonder with that chop!
This just in… Long Time Taipei Times features reporter bites the dust. Sackee informed via email.
Go on.
Yes, do go on.
Yes, please do go on.
From a feature in the Sunday edition of the Taipei Times by Jules Quartly,
“Leave the wrinklies at home when you take your trip to Penghu…”
What are “wrinklies”?
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“Leave the wrinklies at home when you take your trip to Penghu…”
What are “wrinklies”?
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Old people; your mum and dad and aunt Edna etc
Cold blooded. My sympathies.
So who got canned? Inquiring minds want to know.