LEO vs. Velocity???

A friend of mine told me he was having a hard time finding a LEO in the southwest end of town. According to what was told to him, Velocity will not distribute their magazine if LEO is distributed in the same place.

Has anyone else heard of this going on?

[Robin Garr]

A friend of mine told me he was having a hard time finding a LEO in the southwest end of town. According to what was told to him, Velocity will not distribute their magazine if LEO is distributed in the same place.

Has anyone else heard of this going on?

As a contributor to LEO, my initial question would be why anyone would WANT to support the Gannett empire.

But more seriously, I would just love it if your friend could lead me back to a vendor or two who'd be willing to testify to that. Such behavior would be marginally illegal, and at a minimum would embarrass the heck out of Gannett if it went public. That's A Good Thing.

A friend of mine told me he was having a hard time finding a LEO in the southwest end of town. According to what was told to him, Velocity will not distribute their magazine if LEO is distributed in the same place.

Has anyone else heard of this going on?

I don't know if this is true, but I have noticed that in several places (the downtown Y for instance), Leo used to be there and once Velocity showed up, Leo was gone.

A friend of mine told me he was having a hard time finding a LEO in the southwest end of town. According to what was told to him, Velocity will not distribute their magazine if LEO is distributed in the same place.

Has anyone else heard of this going on?

I don't know if this is true, but I have noticed that in several places (the downtown Y for instance), Leo used to be there and once Velocity showed up, Leo was gone.

I don't intend to be a contrarian, but I have noticed at least one occasion where there was Velocity and no LEO, and now there are 2 boxes full of LEO. 5th and Main would be the location. I go by there every day, so I know this to be a fact.

I'm not really sure why anyone reads Velocity anyway, but that is another matter entirely. When I get my LEO, there is always a stack of Velocity right next to them. Usually a much larger stack, because fewer are being taken.

I'm not really sure why anyone reads Velocity anyway, but that is another matter entirely. When I get my LEO, there is always a stack of Velocity right next to them. Usually a much larger stack, because fewer are being taken.

I read Velocity. I happen to have an addiction to reading. I get my hands on anything I can read. Every once in a while there's something in there worthwhile to read. It's like most things in life, choice.

A friend of mine told me he was having a hard time finding a LEO in the southwest end of town. According to what was told to him, Velocity will not distribute their magazine if LEO is distributed in the same place.

Has anyone else heard of this going on?

I live in the Fern Creek area. I usually pick up the LEO and Velocity at the Fern Creek library or the liquor store in the same shopping center. They have both.

Did you say the southwest end of town? This part of town is so conservative...well, LEO is not likely to be well received out here. I hate that because I have to head downtown or to the East End to get my LEO.
I don't know about Velocity, tho, or the situation you described.

My experience was this:

Before I opened DCE I called both Leo & Velocity.
Velocity delivered a box to me the next day (being massively coporate they have a lot of boxes on hand) Leo didn't have any spares and so it was two months before they finaly delivered one.

Now we have both plus a Butler serving up Boom Louisville magazine.

Oh and I read them both. One is like the NY Times and the other the NY Post.

I also used to think my right hand was uglier than my left hand.

I don't understand Velocity. I picked it up once to read during lunch, but I couldn't find any articles. There were several paragraph-long blurbs, usually aimed at teenagers, but nary a full length article in the entire paper. That surprised me because it was so much thicker than a LEO. I quickly realized that it was just full of ads. It's not that Velocity is bad, it's just that there is nothing there.

ADs and entertainment listings...

I don't understand Velocity. I picked it up once to read during lunch, but I couldn't find any articles. There were several paragraph-long blurbs, usually aimed at teenagers, but nary a full length article in the entire paper. That surprised me because it was so much thicker than a LEO. I quickly realized that it was just full of ads. It's not that Velocity is bad, it's just that there is nothing there.

I always say when I look at Velocity that it reminds me of my age ... I understand virtually nothing in the thing and also miss paragraphs of more than twelve words.

LEO for genuine reading...

Velocity for the occasional interesting blurb or anecdote.

if i had to choose one or the other... LEO any day.




and if you truly look, Velocity has to be seriously more than 50% ads.

Most newspapers are feeling the pinch of todays youth not being big readers. They tend to be on line, radio, or tv enthusiasts. Velocity is trying hard to court these folks back to print with the equivalent of visual 'sound bites'. Copy is abbreviated to be consumed in quick glances. My personal opinion is that this is a a big mistake. Those people will never be readers and Velocity finds itself actually competing with TV or the internet.
LEO, I think, knows it's demographics are READERS and works to keep those readers by continuing to supply them with meatier and more in depth material because that's what a real reader wants to read.
Let me make it clear, I'm not insulting those of you that like to read Velocity. I'm only saying that you are most likely to use radio/tv or the internet as your primary source of information and print as a distant 4th whereas LEO readers are more likely to use newspapers or some form of print as their main source of information. It's just a matter of taste, not an intelligence evaluation.

[Robin Garr]

It's just a matter of taste, not an intelligence evaluation.

I'm sure you're right, but it's sure tempting to read that into it. I think a lot of us readers worry a little about a generation that can't (or won't) read ...