Steve Lovelady, one of the "journo-scolds" at CJR, runs down the bad week the newspaper industry had. And at the end of the litany of layoffs and cutbacks, he throws this in:

Almost lost in the news was the discouraging fact that the Baltimore Sun, another Tribune Co. property, announced an over-the-top redesign that left it looking like a comic book and left legions of its readers outraged.

Yes, absolutely, Steve. It looks exactly like a comic book. And it's tragic that with news of The New York Times Co. slashing 500 jobs we're losing sight of the fact that the Baltimore Sun has started running more spot color. For the love of God how can you have important journalism when you've got a big block of 20 percent cyan on the page?

And those "legions" of outraged readers? Would that be the 60ish people who commented on the Sun's redesign blog? (But they'd be different than the "salivating morons" at other blogs, right?) Or the 16 people who cancelled their subscriptions in the first couple of days? (Certainly not the 25 who started subscriptions.) Or the fewer than 1,000 people (out of a readership of well over 600,000) who have called or e-mailed the newspaper with negative and positive comments? Cripes, I've worked at smaller papers that got that many calls because somebody forgot to put the bridge column in. Way to be upfront with the "facts" there, Mr. CJR Man.

>The Week of the Long Knives [CJR Daily]