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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Aug 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Mathew Ingram

    Newspaper people always underestimate how much readers love crosswords. When the National Post had its first big layoffs they got rid of crosswords & that got a huge reader pushback.https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1027211390879256576 …

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    Mathew IngramVerified account @mathewi
    Also re: NYT, about 60 percent of the growth in digital subs came from news -- the rest came from cooking app and crossword
    8:18 AM - 8 Aug 2018
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      1. Dave Simon‏ @hairyhilarity 8 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        People are perversely addicted to the frustrating tip of the tongue sensation that only a crossword puzzle can deliver.

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      2. datageneral‏ @datageneral 8 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Crossword constructors are paid abysmally at almost all newspapers, and given no share of reprint revenue. It's totally out of balance.

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      3. datageneral‏ @datageneral 8 Aug 2018
        Replying to @datageneral @HeerJeet

        In the 1920s, when puzzles were a craze, newspapers played proto neoliberal games — “of course you love writing puzzles so much that you don’t need to get paid”

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      1. NC "F̵a̵c̵e̵b̵o̵o̵k̵ Meta Delenda Est" Steve‏ @TCFKA_NCSteve 8 Aug 2018
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        Easy mistake to make. Most people who don't love them find them intensely annoying. They're almost as polarizing as cilantro. No one is "meh, I can take it or leave it" about them.

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      1. Mathew Ingram‏Verified account @mathewi 8 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        When I want to make NYT staffers mad, I like to call it a crossword puzzle and cooking app with a news division attached

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      1. d‏ @DinoSaurNo1 8 Aug 2018
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        We do the crossword every night. Only reason we subscribe. Also the only thing we use that stupid iPad for.

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      2. Evan Birnholz‏ @evanbirnholz 8 Aug 2018
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        Not only do newspaper people frequently underestimate their readers' love of crosswords; they underestimate how much time and effort that skilled crossword writers put into making their puzzles as good as they can be (for such little pay).

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      3. Evan Birnholz‏ @evanbirnholz 8 Aug 2018
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        That's why many newspaper editors don't really care which crossword they supply; the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe still syndicate crosswords written by Timothy Parker despite the fact that he spent years plagiarizing other people's work.https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/ …

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      1. bertolt rekt‏ @voidwarbler 8 Aug 2018
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        If The Times discontinued the Cryptic there'd be a massive nerdy grey-haired riot this end. Thing's an institution.

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