yes i really hope it is of a readable quality. Both GT and Peninsula are terrible. 3 motivated 13 year olds (with spell check, a printng press and maybe a graphics designer could do a better job than both of them) and I truly believe that.
Will tribune have a different news agenda; i.e. in UAE, they have Khaleej and Gulf News as broadsheets and 7 Days and Emirates Today that are more like tabloids. N.B. A really like the Berliner format (of the Guardian; although i think the times is better in content and smaller in size is where the trend has gone in recent years and as Qatar has so little news it is not a bad idea rather that fubble about with that huge paper thing they call a newspaper here.
Indeed, Tribune sounds very stiff, conservative, broadsheet and Daily Telegraph in nature. Could they not come out with a more lively name; can I advise before it is too late change it maybe use something like The (Doha) Frontier; to me this gives the image of a depper examination of issues otherwise forgotten or ignored. (And this is pretty much what the Mission of Al Jazeera International supposed to be) I understand that it is hard as there cannot be a title like star / sun which examine issues that cant be discussed such as "how long X & Y were getting it on for at the beach" or have a name that could portray a political agenda, but surely you can do better.
I thought of mine just now and there are surely better names than that. I know it is difficult as a new employee to voice disapproval on such things, but is there a email to the new paper???
However, 3 broadsheets or indeed 3 English perpes can surely not survive in Qatar; maybe in 5 years though; the only good they are from is maybe having a read whilst stuck at a traffic jam or lights; if they didn't sell them on the street I would never take the initiative to go and buy it otherwise.
I am perplexed that no printing comany has bought the rights to some international newspapers e.g. The Times, Guardian, NY Times and produce them on location. Indeed this is what is done in SE European countries e.g. Cyprus, Greece, Turkey where they produce them locally.
The only country who would be able to do this is UAE and in particular Dubai; there are 200,000+ Brits live there and 1,000,000 visit every year, there must surely be a demand. The only problematic factor is the time difference, 3/4 hrs between UK and UAE and as the final edition is around 3am it would mean around 7:30/8:30 until they are readily available but that is surely not that bad.
By the way are the Arabic papers as bad or do they offer something original?
yes i really hope it is of a readable quality. Both GT and Peninsula are terrible. 3 motivated 13 year olds (with spell check, a printng press and maybe a graphics designer could do a better job than both of them) and I truly believe that.
Will tribune have a different news agenda; i.e. in UAE, they have Khaleej and Gulf News as broadsheets and 7 Days and Emirates Today that are more like tabloids. N.B. A really like the Berliner format (of the Guardian; although i think the times is better in content and smaller in size is where the trend has gone in recent years and as Qatar has so little news it is not a bad idea rather that fubble about with that huge paper thing they call a newspaper here.
Indeed, Tribune sounds very stiff, conservative, broadsheet and Daily Telegraph in nature. Could they not come out with a more lively name; can I advise before it is too late change it maybe use something like The (Doha) Frontier; to me this gives the image of a depper examination of issues otherwise forgotten or ignored. (And this is pretty much what the Mission of Al Jazeera International supposed to be) I understand that it is hard as there cannot be a title like star / sun which examine issues that cant be discussed such as "how long X & Y were getting it on for at the beach" or have a name that could portray a political agenda, but surely you can do better.
I thought of mine just now and there are surely better names than that. I know it is difficult as a new employee to voice disapproval on such things, but is there a email to the new paper???
However, 3 broadsheets or indeed 3 English perpes can surely not survive in Qatar; maybe in 5 years though; the only good they are from is maybe having a read whilst stuck at a traffic jam or lights; if they didn't sell them on the street I would never take the initiative to go and buy it otherwise.
I am perplexed that no printing comany has bought the rights to some international newspapers e.g. The Times, Guardian, NY Times and produce them on location. Indeed this is what is done in SE European countries e.g. Cyprus, Greece, Turkey where they produce them locally.
The only country who would be able to do this is UAE and in particular Dubai; there are 200,000+ Brits live there and 1,000,000 visit every year, there must surely be a demand. The only problematic factor is the time difference, 3/4 hrs between UK and UAE and as the final edition is around 3am it would mean around 7:30/8:30 until they are readily available but that is surely not that bad.
By the way are the Arabic papers as bad or do they offer something original?
Wow this has turned up into a long post...