If people were willing to pay for the space...
Submitted by Freelancer on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 7:24pm.

Having worked in newspapers for more than 20 years I can say that papers will sell advertising in any space they can.

Many, if not all, special sections I have been involved with have had advertising in them -- so this move doesn't surprise me. More and more papers are moving to put advertising on their front pages -- a practice I personally don't like.

If the advertisers knew going in it was going to be an opinion section with endorsements or whatever, then I think there is nothing wrong with this.

With the downturn in newspapers market share and the reduced level of classified advertising and national advertising, you are going to see more of this in the future.

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