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Когда я говорю своим коллегам, что хотел бы делать таблоид, они меня не понимают. Когда я говорю, что газета Коммерсантъ, с которой я сотрудничаю уже три года, желтая, мне никто не верит. Коммерсантъ многим представляется толстой, умной, напыщенной газетой. Очень серьезной. Ерунда это все. Как вы считаете, английская Times - это таблоид? Тогда прочтите вот эту статью.
Кто не бельмеса по-англицки, вот вам переводчик
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Особенно я был ошарашен вот этими словами из статьи:
"Will the whole world be tabloid in five years from now? I don't know. The market will decide. (Будет ли весь мир бульварным через пять лет? Я не знаю. Рынок решит)".
С чего бы это Times становиться таблоидом? А вот Руперт Мердок так сказал. А он знает, что говорит.
Murdoch approved tabloid Times at News Corp summit
Lisa O'Carroll
Friday November 21, 2003
Rupert Murdoch personally gave the go-ahead for a tabloid version of the Times at a summit with News International executives last week in a move that will mark the biggest shake-up in Fleet Street for decades.
News International executive chairman Les Hinton said the group had been considering launching a tabloid edition for years.
But despite Mr Murdoch's claim that he would have been "ridiculed for debasing" the Times if it had been the first British broadsheet to go tabloid, Mr Hinton denied today's landmark decision had been propelled by the launch of a tabloid Independent last month.
"We have for several years looked at doing this. We have looked at papers like El Pais and the Australian Financial Review, which operate in markets where the compact size is accepted - the quandary here is that although a lot of people like the bigger broadsheet format, practically in commuter areas it is not necessarily the most convenient option."
Mr Hinton said the broadsheet format had never been ideal "ergonomically", requiring the reader to hold the paper aloft, adding that he believed readers would accept a tabloid format.
"If you look at the Guardian, the broadsheet is a bit of a Trojan horse, so much of it is tabloid. If you look at the Sunday Times it is the same, or with the Times - with the T2 section they are almost all tabloid in all but name."
He admitted that not all Times readers, who are considered to be conservative and hostile to change, will like the idea of reading a tabloid they consider to be the format of scurrilous gossip for a different class.
Mr Hinton believes he can retain the traditional readership by keeping the broadsheet version on the shelves in parallel with the tabloid.
But he insisted the Times had a greater number of readers under 44 years old than its arch-rival the Telegraph and therefore its readers may be better disposed to the change.
Mr Hinton said there may be virtue in one of the two remaining broadsheets, the Guardian or the Telegraph, keeping its format to preserve "unique selling point".
But as the Times has already made clear, not going tabloid may prove as much of a gamble when rivals - as the Independent has demonstrated - can pick up new readers, a major achievement in a declining newspaper market.
"Will the whole world be tabloid in five years from now? I don't know. The market will decide," said Mr Hinton.
Like the Independent, the Times is having to incentivise newsagents to carry both versions and keep the broadsheet and tabloid visible on the shelves.
At the moment, retailers get 12.5p per copy of the Times sold, but from next Wednesday those who stock the tabloid version will get 18p.
When the Independent launched its tabloid it increased the amount it pays retailers per copy sold from 14.4p to 30p, according to industry insiders. It has since been reduced to the original level in London but is expected to go back up next week in response to the Times' move.
The Times has been secretly plotting a tabloid version for months but has repeatedly downplayed market speculation it was going to launch before Christmas, traditionally not the time to test new products.
Although it made no mention of the Independent in today's announcement, insiders said Mr Murdoch would never have taken such a gamble had the trail not been blazed by a rival - a point confirmed today.
The Times will print between 70,000 and 80,000 copies of the tabloid and it is hoping 85% of all retailers within the M25 will stock both versions.
Little extra cash is being invested in editorial as the copy is just being repackaged, but there will be a significant extra cost attached to the doubling up of the print run for the London region.
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1090627,00.html