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

[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.