To the Weekly, I’ll keep this short since I’m sure you will be getting a big response about dropping the movie listings from the paper. No one in the public thinks that is a good idea, but most don’t want to bother writing you about it. The listings are probably the No. 1 reason to pick up your paper, as I have for the last 20 years. This is a real BONEHEADED move you have made. As far as making room in your paper, I can provide a list of many other things to remove than the movie times. Let me know if I can help in that regard. I expect you will come to your senses soon and return the list to their rightful place. Thank you. —Aubry Hemingway
I am a long time reader of the Tucson Weekly and am not happy with one of the changes you made: the deletion of the movie times. One of the reasons I read the Weekly is to check the movie reviews and the movie times. I am not happy at all that they are gone. Please put them back into the paper.
—Elise L. Hesser
I’m pretty sure I haven’t looked for movie times in print since the ’80s. Even in the ’90s, we just called the theater. Funny thing, I never even noticed movie times in the Weekly. I’m guessing those who complained were most likely not in your ad demographic.
—Monica Freedman, posted on Facebook
Not a bad start, please consider getting rid of some of the disturbed cartoons.
—posted online by “nam6870”
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2013.
I don’t care about the movie times because I have a smart phone and a computer, but not everybody does.
Yes, I agree with you for removing the movie times from your pages… it was only a minor public service to your readers and who needs those pesky little things in our lives that make life easier… it’s just not the corporate way… and you are a corporation after all, right… As far as the editors reasoning that everyone has a data plan on their smart phone, or you can go on the internet…perhaps on your side of town. I must start carrying my laptop with me rather than the Tucson Weekly whenever I’m traveling around town and try to find a hot-spot that I can link up to… actually I tried that last night and after 15 minutes of trying to get connected I said screw it. I know, I know… it’s just the movie times, no big deal, right?