Went out to retrieve the paper this morning and had a surprise. Instead of The Desert Sun, I was greeted by USA TODAY.
WTF?
No warning. Just USA TODAY.
I don’t like USA TODAY. I think it’s a little too facile. No depth. And certainly no information about Palm Springs or the Coachella Valley.
I wonder if Gannett, which publishes both papers, thought we wouldn’t notice.
I also wonder what the advertisers, whose ads are not on several hundred driveways this morning, think about the switch. Or if the advertisers were told about it.
Refunds, anyone?
My subscription cost some $200 a year. Money in the bank for me if this wasn’t some sort of monumental screw-up. 7 bottles of Bombay Gin—on sale at Ralphs. I can live with that.
(Business hours begin at 10:00a.m. today. I can hardly wait.)
UPDATE: TF Turns out it was a delivery problem. Only some of us got USA TODAY. That doesn’t explain why the local coin box didn’t have today’s paper, but that’s a different WTF.
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