the newspaper business

Gawker is pretty much a junk news site so one shouldn’t hold them to very high standards, but it’s pretty obvious they didn’t even wikipedia their story about the New York Daily News adding color.

The headline for the story was Adventures in ROYGBIV: Why the Daily News Is Going Color.

If you don’t remember seventh grade science or art, Roy G Biv is the mnemonic way to remember the colors of the light spectrum in order of wave length: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.

Which has nothing to do with printing color in a newspaper.

For those non-newspaper readers, all those lovely colors are created from four inks, referred to as CMYK. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (K)

Pretty amazing, huh? That newspapers use four colors and nature uses seven?

We will be num-chucking our way through the airport security to try and reach Ft. Myers, FL sometime on Turkey Day (if the plane doesn’t crash.)

I really like reading the Snooze Press print edition when we visit. My daughter and SIL are subscribers. Don’t get excited, they are both news junkies.

However, I also am reading a lot via RSS. I’m writing this now, because I’ll probably forget it later. That’s a good thing: then I won’t be aware if I am reading more RSS or more print Snooze Press and we’ll see how things go.

I’ll also get to see my granddog show off.