Is This The Sun's Future?

A TSF reader snapped this gathering of freebee boxes at Yonge and Finch, steps from a TTC entrance. Is this the Sun's future? Free for the taking to pump up circulation figures for the advertising dollar?


There is nothing wrong with free, but don't expect a commitment to competitive local news coverage.

This was posted on January 8th. Tellingly enough, though, on the 9th a commenter wrote that "it was still full today".

Meanwhile, 24, the Sun's free counterpart, which everyone has assumed is making money, appears to be having problems of its own (click on picture left for clarification).

Sun Gone Down?

In all the recent stories and counter-stories
the fate of the Sun Chain of tabloid newspapers, people seem to have forgotten that 24 hours, the Sun's apparently successful free counterpart, has issues of its own.

(PS. I hear the Post is set to go TU anytime now. I've been hearing that for awhile, but when you drive by the place every morning and see Andrew Coyne selling pencils out of a little cup, that's gotta mean something, right?)