new newspaper

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Mar 30 07:33:36 PST 2002


At 11:04 PM -0800 3/29/02, Ian Murray posted:
>War Times, produced in San Francisco, will make its first bi-weekly
>appearance on April 12. It will
>be published in English and Spanish and will be distributed throughout the US.
>
>Its editors say it is a response to a demand for more information
>about what is happening in
>Afghanistan and the possibility of conflict elsewhere.
>
>The venture is supported by a number of academics, including Noam
>Chomsky, labour organisations and
>anti-war groups.
>
>Its managing editor, Bob Wing, said the response to the idea had
>been extraordinary. "We originally
>planned to print only 7,500 copies of the pilot," he said, "but the
>demand was so great that we
>printed and distributed 100,000."

That's encouraging, but what comes out bi-weekly is not so much a newspaper as a journal. How much would it cost to put out _War Times_ daily? -- Yoshie

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