Paper boys

[muckefuck]

I saw a newspaper in the staff lounge today and didn't recognise it the Trib at first due to another desperate redesign. Later I passed a stand at the entrance to campus and had the same thought I've had there many times before: Why are all their salesmen dowdy old men? I mean, think about it: If they're using middle-aged guys that even I don't find attractive, what are the chances that the average eighteen year-old is going to give them so much as a second glance? For a while, they showed enough marketing nous to hire pert young women to distribute Red Eye, but that lasted only a couple weeks before they shifted the work to middle-aged bums. I guess kudos to them for not getting all lookist and ageist and/or showing some loyalty to their employees, but I'm not sure how many of them will still appreciate that after they're on the dole because the corporation has gone bust.