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A man in Moscow buys a newspaper...
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Now that we are a one party state, this joke works for the USA.
"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."
- Julius Nyerere
I recently watched a video about how American supermarkets have an excessive amount of unnecessary choice between products and in that light, your comment is very funny/sad
Except that nobody reads newspapers anymore and would see the news on their phone. Hard to adapt the angry newspaper seller guy to an updated version.
Tell that to the grumpy old folks that sit at my library and grouse while waiting for their turn with the newspaper. I've seen queues 3 deep. No, they won't share. Yes, they will spawn camp the newspaper rack.
My late best friend would always buy a newspaper when travelling any journey more than an hour. I'd joke and say that he was too young to be such an old man, but I think that made him like it more. Whether you're buying it or going to the library for it, I think that many people who enjoy physical newspapers relish the ritual of it
I do enjoy the layout of newspapers. Having articles alongside other stories helps put them in context and encourages one to read things they might otherwise skip if they had to be clicked into.
I often do research in old microfilmed newspapers and it's nice to know that, say, WWI was going on in Europe at the same time as Baby Week 1916 (a US effort to reduce infant mortality by education parents on the importance of not killing their babies through poor sanitary and nutritional practices)