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  Allan Lynch July 17, 2011 at 11:03pm

  I would love to comment, because gawd knows I have a lot to say on publishing topics, but only have 14 hours at home before I board another flight. In seven weeks I will have been in my own bed for four nights. My sex life should be this good.
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  Jill Wood July 17, 2011 at 10:44pm

  The free paper, the Metro, does this all the time. Slightly annoying, but it's ad's which make a publication money, not readership, unfortunately.
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  José Balido July 17, 2011 at 10:04pm

  Call me a diplomat, but I agree with all sides: it's necessary to ensure the survival of the Herald, but that doesn't mean it's not tacky, pathetic and preposterous.
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  David Paul Appell July 17, 2011 at 10:00pm

  Well, most of the responses to my Facebook posted were pretty negative, including the words "pathetic" "tacky" and "preposterous."

  http://www.facebook.com/david.paul.appell

   
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  Jose R. Garrigo July 17, 2011 at 9:31pm

  Hi José, This is a hard one to answer unemotionally.  Printed media is having a hard time surviving these bad economic times.  Less ads.  Less pages.  Sadly, a few good reporters without a job.  I also was surprised with the "front page" and realized it was a gimmick, not the true front page.  You may have noticed this same thing in past Miami Herald Sunday issues (half front pages) but this is the first time that it takes the whole front and back pages.  My take is that, while it's too commercial and I may not like it, what's important to me is that they continue having good investigative reporters, continue searching and reporting what is wrong in the community and that they report the news in a balanced and fair manner.
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  Simon & Baker Travel Review July 17, 2011 at 9:02pm

  Based on your photo the Palm Beach Post had the same four-page ad.
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  Buzzy Gordon July 17, 2011 at 8:49pm

  This has been SOP for magazines for years; as you say, it does not  really fool anyone (at least not for more than a few seconds). If this will help save our vanishing print outlets from extinction, is it not worth it? After all, how much is left now of the Sunday Miami Herald's Travel section?
  
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  José Balido July 17, 2011 at 8:21pm

  Nearly choked on breakfast this morning, when we sat down at Graziano's, a cool Argentine café in Coral Gables, and opened up the Sunday Miami Herald. The front page had been taken over by a giant ad! After huffing and puffing about the state of journalism today, where a major city paper would sell its front page, we finally realized (we hadn't had our coffee yet!) that the real front page was just inside and this was just a gimmicky wraparound designed to look like the front page of the Herald, tawdry headlines included. What do you guys think of gimmicks like this? Are they undermining a culture of serious and respectable journalism?  

  
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  Trish Riley July 14, 2011 at 11:08pm

  Thanks, Stacy! I especially appreciated on how to use the pepper spray.... am I getting nervous? A little!
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