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Mini Poll: Suburban Journals

Current Totals:

From which of the following sources do you get most of your local news?

Coffee shop/grocery store chatter:
 1%
Internet sites, like MayorSlay.com:
 19%
Magazines:
 0%
Daily newspapers:
 38%
Weekly or monthly newspapers:
 6%
Radio:
 10%
Sermons at church:
 4%
Television:
 22%

 

Which of the following free local newspapers do you most regularly read?

Green Sheet:
 1%
Java Journal:
 0%
Riverfront Times:
 25%
Sauce:
 13%
St. Louis Argus:
 1%
St. Louis Review:
 6%
Suburban Journals:
 42%
Vital Voice:
 3%
West End Word:
 9%

 

Do you receive a copy of the Suburban Journal at your home regularly?

Yes:
 69%
No:
 31%

 

If you do not receive a Suburban Journal, do you wish you did?

Yes:
 44%
No:
 56%

 

If you do receive a Suburban Journal, do you wish you did not?

Yes:
 33%
No:
 67%

 

Which of the following actions best describes what you most often do with the Suburban Journal?

Read it to find out what's going on in my neighborhood:
 50%
Read it to find out how a school's sports teams are doing:
 4%
Read it to learn new recipes:
 2%
Read it to find out about bargains or sales:
 3%
Read it to see what lunches the schools are serving this week:
 0%
Steal or borrow a copy from someone who gets one:
 4%
Place it in the trash can or recycling bin without reading it:
 32%
Leave it in the yard until it mulches:
 6%

 

Which of the following features of the Suburban Journal do you most regularly read?

Education:
 2%
Prep Sports:
 9%
Guest Commentary:
 1%
Letters:
 4%
Opinion Shaper:
 3%
Page One stories:
 48%
Town Talk:
 19%
Entertainment:
 1%
Recipes:
 3%
Life Styles:
 3%
Classifieds:
 7%

 

Have you ever looked to find how much your neighbors' or friends' homes were worth in the "What Did it Sell For" feature?

Yes:
 61%
No:
 39%

 

Have you ever called Town Talk?

Yes:
 6%
No:
 94%

 

Which of the following is most likely the average age of a Town Talk caller?

60:
 25%
70:
 32%
80:
 15%
90:
 9%
100:
 18%

 

If you were going to submit something to the Suburban Journals, which of the following would it most likely be?

A guest commentary on a subject of great interest to the community:
 25%
A letter to the editor poking fun at an Opinion Shaper article:
 12%
A favorite recipe from my family:
 4%
A sports feat by someone in my family:
 8%
An ad for my garage sale:
 43%
An anonymous tape recorded Town Talk comment about something that outraged me:
 7%

 

Do you find the guest commentaries in the Suburban Journals generally interesting, or generally a waste of reader time?

Generally interesting:
 50%
A waste of reader time:
 50%

 

Do you think reporting in the Suburban Journals is better than reporting in other newspapers, worse than in other papers, or about the same?

Better:
 15%
Worse:
 27%
About the same:
 58%

 

Do you agree with the Suburban Journals' highly publicized decision not to use the surname of the adult associated with a cruel Internet hoax that may have led to the suicide of a despondent local teenager because naming them would have revealed the name of the hoaxer's minor child?

Yes:
 64%
No:
 36%

 

Which of the following statements best reflects your most strongly held opinion of the Suburban Journals?

The Suburban Journals are an important source of community news because they cover people, events, and issues often overlooked by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
 51%
The Suburban Journals should not be delivered free to households because some people don't want them and they litter neighborhoods; they should be distributed in kiosks so that only those who wish to read them take them:
 38%
The Suburban Journals cover mostly trivial events that I am not interested in reading:
 11%

 

Do you read the Suburban Journals online?

Yes, sometimes:
 25%
Yes, always:
 2%
No:
 73%

 

Note: Due to rounding, results for some questions may not total 100%.


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