The Mercury News has taken a turn for the… well that’s for you to decide.
As popularity for The Mercury News takes a dive and newspapers grasp for any rope that can pull them out of the hole that is a dying trend, articles like the recent one on Puberty become a new twist to keep you interested.
“During 2009, the Mercury News will publish
a story each month about the events that make each life extraordinary.
This month: A group of Silicon Valley tweenagers hit puberty, and puberty hits back.“
Maybe the Merc is working the bugs out or maybe this was a perfect ploy but the two most visible headlines being “Mortgage Rates Plummet” and “Puberty” send quite the an interesting signal. I’m not 100% sure which to read first! It’s all just so exciting.
However, newspapers are reaching a point where a change has to be made in content and how it is distributed. Personally, I happen to read articles from the newspaper when presented via my personal circle of internet media sites I follow or happen upon. Usually this happens by viewing the Yahoo! newspaper consortium articles I see first on my Internet Explorer homepage or when I read Inside San Jose.
But will these “real” issue articles be what brings people back to reading a physical newspaper? We’ll see! What are your thoughts?