The friday edition of the local evening paper turned up, and as usual I dissected it to remove all the bits that I didn't want.
First up:
The "Property Guide" section ... a whole 96 pages!
That accounted for over half the weight of the paper, and I seriously wonder how many people are *actually* intersted inreading any of it. It seems just a criminal waste of newsprint.
Next up: The "motoring Guide", about half the remainder of the paper.
Which left a pretty sad little specimen of publishing charading as the evening paper.

It (the Friday edition) seems to be suffering the provincial evening papers' disease of having to compete with it's own Saturday edition for news. The publishers (in their wisdom) have converted the Saturday edition to a *morning* paper. So, how much reportable news is going to occur between the Friday evening edition, and the Saturday morning edition.
What happens is that the news gets divided up Friday night, with the stuff that won't go stale being consigned to the Saturday edition.
The Friday paper is pumped up with Property & Motoring guides, and the Saturday edition gets a whole bunch of "magazine" and commentatory, or "opinion columns" to make it seem a more meaty "lifestyle" paper.
Its all a waste of time, but I really like to get the paper to know what's happening in MY district.
Maybe there is a case for a subscription where you can get the basic paper WITHOUT all the commercial advertising supplements which pretend to be newspaper sections.
... at a premium subscription rate of course, but I think I would be willing to pay to NOT recieve all that junk, and save a few trees.