Storyboard: Why frontpages are serving up ads and not news!

If you read newspapers you can't have missed how the front pages of almost all the top national dailies, have been serving up ads. This trend was rampant between September 25 and October 16. If Dainik Bhaskar and Dainik Jagran have averaged about 10 full front page ads during this period, English newspapers like the Times of India  and the Hindustan Times have run more than 15 front pagers, at least in the metro editions, in the same time. While print ad volumes this year are at about the same level as last year the values have dropped. So it