> People forget that pre-internet, USA Today was basically a news aggregator that just happened to print other people's stories on newspaper form. This part yo

> People forget that pre-internet, USA Today was basically a news aggregator that just happened to print other people's stories on newspaper form. This part you’re wrong about, USA Today has always had its own reporters, a fair number of them, although it’s probably true they ran plenty of wire service stories as well, and may have run stories from other papers run by the parent company (Gannett). It’s true about the hotels and as far as I know few people ever bought direct subscriptions.