USA Today Slightly Out of Touch
USA Today has been running a series for their 25th year of publication. Today they have picked the 25 things that have all but vanished.
First, their number one pick is “indoor smoking.” This makes the top of the list of things that have “left us?” Here in flyover country, there is still a lot of indoor smoking. So it’s not even close to “vanishing.”
Second, they blew it when they said afternoon newspapers were vanishing:
Remember the kid on the bike who never quite reached the porch with your afternoon daily? He moved on, as did lifestyles and the media world. City afternoons became lonelier for newspaper readers.
It was #22 on their list, but only 56% of the nation’s newspapers are morning papers.
They pretty much nailed it with the rest of their list, but these two examples point out that they are slightly out of touch.