Oh, come now: this is news?

Our hometown newspaper, The Hamilton Spectator, has sunk to a new low. Last year The Spec underwent a facelift in which it considerably dumbed down its contents, eliminating the old "Canada and the World" section and cutting the two op-ed pages down to a single page. Now in today's edition two-thirds -- yes, two-thirds! -- of the front page is covered with rows of tiny photographs of automobiles and the following "headline" extending across the middle: "Oprah Winfrey gives away 276 BRAND NEW cars. A10." I suppose we can't expect The New York Times, but surely Hamilton deserves better than this?