I recall that years ago, USA Today was sort of intended to be a "generic national newspaper". It made sense for places like 'delivery to hotel rooms' where the

I recall that years ago, USA Today was sort of intended to be a "generic national newspaper". It made sense for places like 'delivery to hotel rooms' where the audience wanted a general national/global news product, but didn't need the 50% of the paper that was local school board meetings and classified ads. With that principle, I always figured that the endgame of the Gannet company would be to make their local papers USA Today with a small local supplement folded in. Maybe the same applies online-- you'll buy usatoday.com for national news, and also subscribe to a local rag. Over time, the local papers may scale back the national/global/wire service stuff.