[Magdalen] USA Today

[Scott Knitter]

I rejoiced in its appearance; it was meant to be a visual presentation of the news in the age of television, and indeed the vending boxes from which one could buy a copy were meant to look like TVs. USA Today was meant to be the Short Attention Span Theatre of printed news: no story went to a jump page except the main story in each section, and its jump page was always the next page. Color defined the sections, and the weather was a beautiful page always on the back of the News section.

The nation was always called the USA, never the U.S. Or anything else.

They inevitably did a remake that ruined a lot of that. But I guess the original design was a bit confining.

I think the big blue dot is stupid and they should return to the original design.

Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:58 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's always available for sale on newsstands, but many hotels give it free
> to guests.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:43 PM, ROGER STOKES <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> On my various trips around the States I have encountered USA Today in
>> numerous hotels.  I did so again in Idaho Falls - but with a difference.
>> Elsewhere it has been a complimentary offering but at the Shilo Hotel and
>> Suites it was in a regular newsstand at its cover price of $2.  Have any of
>> you ever found it for sale?
>> Roger
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
> 
> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
> Bonhoeffer*