USA Today

[BeBop]

Wow. Check out that graphic of the angry woman. Let's see what my favorite celeb is up to. Says here that Recovery Will Take Time After Northeast Flooding. Boy, that's thought-provoking. Jolly Green Giant in the running to be added to "advertising walk of fame".

Today's headline: "1 in 7 Drivers Are Not Insured".

Edited September 13, 2011 by BeBop

[Jim Alfredson]

If you look up "rag" in the dictionary, I think there's a picture of the latest USAToday. Whenever I see it outside my door at a hotel, I don't even bother to pick it up. Horseshit.

[Jazzmoose]

All that rag has ever been good for is box scores.

[gmonahan]

All that rag has ever been good for is box scores.

My father gets it for the crossword puzzle.

gregmo

[GA Russell]

I lived in York, PA, just up the road from Baltimore when USA Today started ca. 1983. Baltimore was one of its original markets. I remember what an excellent job they did covering the USFL and my Philly Stars.

Do you remember a sports-only newspaper called The National? It failed, and I always felt that it did because USA Today's sports section was good enough for the national market, and The National was not filling a need.

[Van Basten II]

If I remember at the same time USA Today created their Baseball weekly at almost the same time than The National started.

[AllenLowe]

any paper that can be read in less time than it takes to do a bowel movement can't be all bad -

[BeBop]

any paper that can be read in less time than it takes to do a bowel movement can't be all bad -

I'm going to fight the temptation to make a remark about use of the paper when you're done reading it...oops.

I will give a bit of credit one other thing USA Today does that's of some value: they do offer up a bit of useful information to the business traveler - new airline routes, airport changes, hotel stuff. Since it's the business traveler that finds the USA Today on his/her doorstep every day, gratis, it's a service to the audience.

I'm happy when my hotel substitutes the Wall Street Journal, though that's no more than a mockery of its former self. Heck, I'm happy to see the Fresno Bee or Des Moines Register.

[gmonahan]

any paper that can be read in less time than it takes to do a bowel movement can't be all bad -

[sidewinder]

any paper that can be read in less time than it takes to do a bowel movement can't be all bad -

I've felt that way about this 'rag' for many a year. A waste of good toilet paper IMO.