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From: hal@cornell.UUCP (Hal Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Re: The Washington Times and the Moonies [USA Today, really]
Message-ID: <1659@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-May-85 16:28:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 11 16:28:14 1985
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Reply-To: hal@gvax.UUCP (Hal Perkins)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Summary: 

>> My favourite idiocy of USA Today is the fact that their sales boxes
>> read "The Nation's Newspaper".  In Canada.
>
>Also, it was interesting that "The Nation's Newspaper" put up their selling
>boxes in the streets of Kitchener-Waterloo without a permit from the city.
>I guess americans are above canadian laws......

They also appear to be unrestrained by American laws.  USA Today installed
vending boxes all over Ithaca, NY (even in mostly residential neighborhoods)
without asking the city.  When the city took them to court to try and get them
to remove the boxes, USA Today babbled about "freedom of the press" and won.
Didn't help their public image at all, although I don't know what it did for
their sales.

One interesting thing about this,  McPaper (USA Today) is owned by the Gannett
Company, which also owns Ithaca's only daily paper, The Ithaca Journal, which
distributes USA Today here.  But the Journal itself doesn't insist on putting
vending boxes in places where they aren't wanted.  I even think they came out
against the USA Today boxes on their editorial page!  (My memory is a little
hazy on this though)

Hal Perkins                         UUCP: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal
Cornell Computer Science            ARPA: hal@cornell  BITNET: hal@crnlcs