Along the subway line, there is a graveyard of newspaper boxes.<\/p>\n
The train rolls along, through a wooded stretch of track, and then, suddenly, on the south side of the track there is a fenced off area with woods all around.<\/p>\n
There, in the middle of the enclosed space, stands perhaps twenty newspaper boxes.<\/p>\n
They are of all shapes and styles. There are red boxes and yellow boxes. Some have their money boxes sticking straight up.<\/p>\n
And there’s a distinctive USA Today<\/i> box, with its thin black stand and the large white box.<\/p>\n
I remember the first time I saw a USA Today<\/i> box; I thought it was the niftiest thing I’d seen in some time. It was like a window on the world, a television monitor of sorts, like something futuristic as if designed decades hence. Which was, I think, the idea.<\/p>\n
I haven’t seen a USA Today<\/i> box in the wild in a long time.<\/p>\n
To see it there, in the grave yard, is saddening.<\/p>\n
More bothersome – to me, anyways – is the trend of the Baltimore Sun<\/i> to look like<\/i> the USA Today<\/i>. Color, loud headlines, sans-serif fonts. A venerable institution, turned crass and unappealing.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how long the newspaper boxes have been there. I don’t know why that<\/i> clearing, along the track between the Milford Mill and Reisterstown Road stations. It seems… random, as though someone didn’t know what else to do with the newspaper boxes.<\/p>\n
Out of sight. Out of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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