Newspapers as a Momento

I enjoy reading my newspaper every morning.  I know said activity (sad activity?) is archaic in today's instant message, twitter, internets at your fingertips world we live in but I do enjoy my morning coffee and reading the newspaper.  Even for myself, I'll read something in the paper and I'll have read the same story the night before on the Internets and say, "I read that last night on the 'net, why do I even subscribe to a paper?"  I like to eat reading a paper too and sitting at my desk with my computer and a burrito just isn't the same as sitting there at El Faro with my Chicago Sun-Times with salsa roja dribbling down my chin.

So I've noticed changes in my paper, the Elgin Courier News, is making several changes, dropping Saturday editions altogether and switching to tabloid format.  Even the mighty Chicago Tribune recently switched to a tabloid format for newsstand sales to spruce sales.  Columnists are leaving papers in droves including some of my faves in recent months Jay Mariotti and Robert Feders (his last column for S-T is linked here) of the Sun-Times.  Music writer Mark Guarino was unceremoniously released from the Suburban Chicago Daily Herald.  Mariotti claimed the future of media is the Internet but went to write for "cutting edge" AOL?  AOL?  You're so 1996, Jay. 

My point here and I do have one is that even though newspapers are becoming more and more passe regarding how to get your news, I find it ironic that when there's a big news story, like the recent inauguration, what do people buy for a keepsake?  

A newspaper.  

How many copies did you buy?