# Why does the Atlanta Journal-Constitution divide its news section into two pages? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 20, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170 "2008-07-20T18:33:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170/1 "2008-07-20T18:33:10Z")
I’m in Atlanta reading today’s paper, and I was wondering. Does anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170/2 "2008-07-21T22:58:07Z")
bump. ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170/3 "2008-07-21T23:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Socks] I’m in Atlanta reading today’s paper, and I was wondering. Does anyone know? [/QUOTE] You mean two sections for news? I’ve been reading the AJC for 15 years, and they only seem to do it in the Sunday edition, but never in the weekday or Saturday ones. Also, the 2nd news section is usually national or world news of lesser importance – basically the stuff that didn’t make the cut in the main news section. My guess is that they save up all the 2nd tier wire service stories during the preceding week & dump them in the Sunday 2nd news section. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170/4 "2008-07-22T00:46:36Z")
I have no knowledge specifically about the Atlanta paper, but the normal reason for splitting the news into two sections is that its printing press can handle only a certain number of pages in a section comfortably. The total number of pages in a newspaper has little to do with the amount of news (actually, unless a major, major event takes place it has nothing to do with the amount of news) but everything to do with the amount of advertising. People don’t like reading a number of ads together to fill up a page so the best strategy is to put a few articles on each page with the advertising. This is fairly normal for many Sunday papers, but less usual for daily papers. Without seeing the specific paper, I can’t say any more. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170/5 "2008-07-22T14:34:09Z")
Tons of newspapers have two news sections in the Sunday paper. I process them from all over the country for the library. I really don’t believe that people in Chicago or New York or London actually read that whole Sunday paper. There’s no way. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-atlanta-journal-constitution-divide-its-news-section-into-two-pages/457170/6 "2008-07-22T14:51:50Z")
Reading the entire Sunday New York Times is a Religion for many people.