Same for the Op-ed page next door. Lifestyle has over a half page of TV Guide and then two pages of comics and other syndicated entertainment. The Sports section is filled with sports agate and summaries and peppered with a few stories. In some ways this is indeed news, but I am not going to count page 2. But I am not totally happy about it.
Business is mostly stock numbers, three full pages in a six-page section.
The rest is cheap syndicated copy and then ads, i.e., money in pocket. Another item of study was the number of stories from a newsroom filled with 60 to 70 reporters, depending on whom you talk to and how you count. A couple of those were 5-6 inches in length or double bylined. That ratio works out to be a story every three days or so. That s a deal I wish I had had when I was a reporter.