Dept. Of Fingers, Dykes, Good Intentions: Perhaps You Could Also Celebrate Buy-A-Newspaper-Day By Picking Up A Free Newspaper?
Save the date: On Monday, February 2nd, forces beyond your control will be attempting to guilt you back into the habit the buying newspapers even though, by and large, newspapers have abused you, discounted you and taken you for a fool for decades now. (Especially recently.) But it’s Buy A Newspaper Day, and if you cannot exercise a bit of weak nostalgia and some pocket change on this day, well, you’re an even worse person than us. But franky, when is Take A Free Newspaper Day coming up? For the last few weeks, both City Paper and Philadelphia Weekly have clocked in at a super-anemic 64 pages a piece. This has been consistently the lowest page counts for these papers we’ve ever seen. And we’re conflicted: We love printed matter, and to some extent print is getting exactly what it deserves right now… but we still love printed matter. We just wish it was better. Not gone.
