A run on the news

I just stopped at Wawa to get a coffee and some papers, in particular a New York Times . I got the coffee, but the papers — well, I bought a Star-Ledger. The Times was sold out. USA Today was gone. Likewise, the New York tabloids and the Bergen Record.

The guy who rang me up said they went quickly, that people were buying two, three, four at a time.

People understand what this electoral moment is and they wanted something tangible to signify it. News is the first draft of history and newspapers are still embody it better than any other media.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet