Sunday, September 16, 2007

BLUE, GREEN, ORANGE AND PURPLE: USA Today turned 25 years old this weekend, and as America's most-read daily newspaper, we probably ought to say something about it. But other than the introduction of color printing to daily newspapers, I'm not quite sure what else I'd highlight. Maybe the formalization of sports-on-tv criticism as a legitimate beat? You can read their self-chronology here.

It's a newspaper that I only read when it's available for free (at a hotel, or abandoned at an airport), and I can't think of anything that it does better than other newspapers or any writer there I find that interesting or memorable. So when, and why, do you read it?

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