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June 23, 2008

All the news that is fit to print, or...

While newspaper readership in the US (and consequently their revenues) plunges, in Cuba, there is still a strong demand.

You didn't think they actually read them, did you?

- UPDATE -
For some reason the person who posted this video, which has a Cuban using a Cuban newspaper to line his garbage can while he explains that is all it is good for, has decided to remove it. We can only speculate as to the reasons why.

Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at June 23, 2008 06:43 PM

Comments

Perhaps they should try reporting the Truth?? It’s hard to imagine that newspapers will cease to exist, but we are on the verge of that.Radio fell to TV...newspapers fall to the Internet,iPods,Blackberrys, and cellphones...what’s a publisher to do? Dinomedia going the way of Dino-Soros...

Posted by: Coconutjuice at June 23, 2008 06:59 PM

The video has been removed on YouTube.

Posted by: Claudia4Libertad at June 23, 2008 08:17 PM

All the fits that's news to print.

Posted by: delacova at June 23, 2008 11:38 PM

Seriously,

The only thing I've ever used Granma for in Cuba - ditto all my family down south - is for toilet paper.

The tried and true process is as follows.

Step 1: Take care of business (you know what I'm talking about).

Step 2: Proceed to crinkle/open/crinkle/open a sheet of newsprint several times. This serves to soften up the fibers a little bit.

Step 3: Wipe. My aunt Lourdes tends to yell out from the kitchen (when I'm in the bathroom) - "you're using a page with Fidel on it, right?"

LOL

-AB

Posted by: CubaWatch at June 24, 2008 09:39 AM