'Cry Us a River of Frappucino,' Says Salt Lake City Weekly
By AAN Staff
november 20, 2007 08:33 am
"Why can't I, as a fellow weekly-newspaper guy, muster up much sympathy for the
Shepherd Express?," asks
Weekly associate editor Bill Frost in response to
yesterday's news that Milwaukee's alt-weekly was having some distribution issues involving the local daily (and its free weekly) and coffee giant Starbucks. "Because
City Weekly has never been allowed into Salt Lake City Starbucks; at least the
Express had a foot in the door for a while," he writes. "Now, just as Salt Lake City residents have for years, Milwaukee-ites will have to sip their overpriced Charbucks while reading an inferior knockoff of a weekly that has an exclusive, paid-for in."