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Re:Writing tools I learned from The Economist by ghaff on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:44PM (#26703671)
USA Today was deliberately created as a colorful low-brow but not really tabloid-y paper that, among other places, tended to be the paper of choice to leave outside your hotel room in the morning. My favorite quote about it was something to the effect of: "It's the newspaper for people who find the nightly news too challenging to understand."
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Re:Writing tools I learned from The Economist by jfengel on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:44AM (#26713267)
I remember USA Today being controversial when it was introduced. Its stories were so short that they often weren't generally continued past the front page, which seemed absurd at the time.

Today many people don't read past the headlines, and the pacing of USA Today seems positively languid and scholarly.

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