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Steve Yelvington
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The Trouble With Print
Posted by Steve Yelvington at 11:37 AM on Nov. 4, 2005
This quote was posted by a reader on the Philadelphia Daily News blog, "Attytood":
"But let's just imagine a newspaper as a product, one that was just invented today. ...

"It's a product you have to go and get in the rain, snow or wind and pull out of the hedge, the leaves or a coin-eating box on a dirty street corner. It's heavy. It's big. You're not interested in 90 percent of its content. And when you're done with it, you -- literally -- have to wash your hands and figure out how to properly dispose of the thing.

"Would you buy this new invention?

"Didn't think so."
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