Alison GerberWe told you it would be painful.
The new press being installed at the Times Free Press has prompted some recent changes. The alignment of the sections changed Tuesday through Saturday, with Sports moving to Section B. News and obituaries moved to Section C. Business and the weather page moved, too, to Section D.
We had a few days when we had to publish early, meaning we couldn’t include coverage of the Atlanta Braves and Chattanooga Lookouts games because they ended after our deadline. We also had two days when much of the paper, including Page One, was black and white.
And it turns out most readers didn’t seem fazed by the black and white pages. I didn’t get a single complaint. But some didn’t care for the sections jumping around. And, as for the absent baseball coverage, well, those Braves fans were hoppin’ mad. Even though we posted all the coverage at timesfreepress.com, some people didn’t want to go online to read it. They wanted to read it in the paper.
People ask all the time why the new press is not yet complete, why it’s taking so long. “The Panama Canal took less time to build,” one reader joked. “We’ll have a new president before that press is finished,” stated another.