Starting Monday a new freebie daily, The Manchester Daily Express, hit the streets of Manchester New Hampshire with the slogan -- at least as expressed by publisher Jody Reese -- "because your time is valuable, we won't waste it." Uh-oh.
The paper, which is published by the owners of the New Hampshire weekly,
HippoPress, will begin with an initial output of 3,000 copies with a target of 9.000 copies per day by August.
Speaking of papers that promise you the world in 20 minutes, I recently picked up a copy of the Washington Post's Cliff Notes version of a daily paper --
Express -- and while limiting my comment to a superficial evaluation, I will say this. It is uglier than its Boston cousin (half owned by the Globe), the Metro.