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Re: Location of garden articles in newspapers

GWL: The only reason a quick answer to this problem is becuase I'm at home today at the computer and working on a book so any interruption is a welcome interruption. (Point: it is The New York Times not the New York Times). And most newspapers today are owned by other companies and deem garden columns to be necessary only if cheap or free, the first often provided by folks who want to see their name in the papers and the second by extension agents who work for free because they are state or county employees. Then, too,  there are the readers: In England many more folks (per capita) are gardeners than in the US. After all, if so many Americans really gardened (instead of the better half paying laborers to do the job and the lesser half interested only in marigolds, petunias, and veggies), we would live in a far more beautfuful urban and suburban environment. If gardening is so popular, why does the country get uglier by the week? As Andrew points out, today the bottom line is the buck first, the investors second, the advertisers third, and the readers at the bottom of the heap. Peter L.
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The Times has taken the usually weekly gardening articles out of the Style section and most of the weekly Home section and they are now put in what we used to call the BQLI sections (Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island) which now cover a much wider area since I now live in Westchester...an it shows up in our section.  So, at one point long, long ago they could have actually had columns by hardiness zones on weekends and gardening articles of regional interest in a main section on Sundays.  But as one analyst put it over the weekend the New York Times (and other papers and news outlets) are publicly traded companies and the driving force is....the bottom line.  In this case the bottom isn't dirt, but dollars.  Reader be damned.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener
The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark   

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