Street newspapers

May 04, 2010 08:44

This local article jogged my memory about street newspapersWhile not "newspapers" in the traditional sense, I would classify them as more along the lines of something like "advocacy journalism," they still fill an overlooked, yet important, function that the Internet cannot. However, according to the Wiki article, most street newspapers barely ( Read more... )

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zastrazzi May 4 2010, 16:17:58 UTC
I would *love* it if street newspapers lost their purpose, because it would mean homelessness had been solved.

I do buy the local street newspaper whenever I can, because I'm interested in the stories they tell about the city I live in. There's even a guy in one of our trendy neighbourhoods who is out a couple days a week with his own photocopied pamphlet, and I buy his all the time as well.

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