Newspaper for what ?

Today I bought a newspaper - physical one ! Sunday Edition of Mercury News.

Motivation was not the news, I wanted to study it's form factor and to verify that there is still value from the ad prints. Very much like a trip to zoo to visualize how the dinosaurs once lived and how their enormous physiology led to their extinction.

Thick, bulky, full of promotional material, newspaper looked like a dying patient. In this age of digital renaissance why are we still killing trees to push commercial products. If size of the newspaper is a sign of development then we better have few more Amazon forests in the back-pocket.

It's about time Government imposes environmental tax on print media in certain economies (like Bay Area).