The Last to Know ...

[Media] Now that the Buzz has been swatted (its final issue comes out tomorrow), its yellow-jacketed distributors are going to be looking for work.

The worker bees, who aggressively hand out the Trib's "commuter daily" near TRAX platforms, seem, typically, to have been forgotten by management. According to one yellowjacket, they were "notified" of their impending job-loss at the same time the rest of us found out about it--when they read the story in the paper.

I don't suppose they'll qualify for a parachute--even a yellow one.

(Brandon Burt)

Give Me Freedom or Give Me Spam 2

[Media] Again, how does this help keep anything "free"? And why didn't the Salt Lake Tribune version ask you to be 16 or older? (Bill Frost)

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[Media] Main Street has been infested with yellow-jacketed drones handing out copies of Afternoon Buzz, the Newspaper Agency Corporation/Media One's latest waste of perfectly good trees.

If you've not had one forced upon you, the Buzz is free news and entertainment stories boiled down to insubstantial micro-paragraphs that leave you feeling approximately 60 percent dumber for having tried to read them. It's pulled off the heretofore impossible feat of making the craptastic In Utah This Week look like The Village Voice.

So we'd like a volunteer or two to stand next to the yellow-jackets outside of the City Weekly offices and hand out copies of our paper. When anyone asks, "What's this?" just say, "It's free like that, only with actual content and local relevance--oh, and you get to keep your soul after reading it." Any takers? (Bill Frost)