University Journo Dissects Chicago's New Youth Tabs
By AAN Staff
november 18, 2002 11:30 am
RedEye and Red Streak both "suck
to similar degrees, and both emulate
the clichés of
youth-oriented marketing: brevity, snark,
'edginess' ... and color," Whet Moser of
The Chicago Maroon writes. But their
other, more important, failures
include not being a substitute for the
"brevity and depth" of the Internet or either
a viable substitute for or a precursor to
reading the regular daily, the University of
Chicago columnist writes.