Reality check

[ffutures]

How easy would it be for someone in Washington to get a copy of the Miami Herald the day it was published? Would special arrangements be needed, or is it on sale in Washington anyway?

Later OK, not very easily. Which actually suits me...

Comments

[slrose.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Washington, D.C. or the state of Washington?

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Or even Washington, Tyne and Wear. :-)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

DC

[slrose.livejournal.com]

I don't know for sure, but generalizing from the New York example, there are probably a few high-end newsstands that will get it, with yesterday's issue available in the morning and today's available in late afternoon.

But you'd have to know which were the right newsstands.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Only if someone flew up from Miami and gave it to them. Back when people still read out of town newspapers in print form, they'd be mailed and would be a couple of days out of date (at least). Some out of town papers used to be printed locally (the New York Times, Wall Street Journal), but I'm not even sure if they still do that.

Why wouldn't they just read it online?

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that this is the case. There are book/magazine stores here in Toronto that specialize in carrying many newspapers. I can go a block and a half down the street from where I'm currently sitting and get a Chicago Tribune or Boston Globe -- I'm not sure that the Miami Herald is included in the product list, but they have quite the wall of papers so I wouldn't be surprised.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Sure, we have that too (Out of Town News in Harvard Square). But it isn't today's newspaper (check the dates). It isn't impossible to fly them out, but it is crazy expensive. It would make a $1 paper $5 or $6. If they mail it, it only makes it twice as expensive, and it is only a day or two old.

Toronto might get the Chicago paper the same day (they can also ship them by commercial bus), but the only way to get a Miami paper to DC in one day is to fly it there.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

If they have one of these setups in DC:

http://www.newspaperdirect.com/products/printondemand.aspx

Then yes. It is essentially a machine that prints-on-demand newspapers, and the Miami Herald is one of their feeds.

But since they're printing on 11" x 17" paper, I'm still not sure how that's better (or different) than reading it online.

Miami Herald

[samthereaderman.livejournal.com]

I work in DC. There are a couple of specialty newstands that might carry it. The Newseum has the front pages of all major papers on display. The National Press Club would probably have it too. But it wouldn't be sold in the street or regular news kiosks. And, of course, there's always online.

In short, if you are looking for it, you can get it but you won't just run accross it.