Toronto Mike

Star P.M., A Test Drive

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The Toronto Star introduced Star P.M. today.  To quote the Star P.M. page, it's "a free, downloadable afternoon daily newspaper in PDF format".  At 4:27pm I received an email from the Star letting me know today's issue was ready for downloading.  I decided to give Star P.M. a test drive.

The complete edition was 12 pages, so I downloaded it, printed it and threw it in my bag for the subway ride home.  I got on the subway at St. George and started to read.  I learned five more soldiers were injured in Kandahar, it's going to be 23° tomorrow, Castro's lost a lot of weight and the Pens have signed Malkin.  There was more, but a great deal was fluff about how Rosie bored on The View, large fast food combos aren't good for you and web surfing on the job costs employers.  By Runnymede station I had read every word which was perfect because I was getting off at Jane.

All in all I liked it.  A tidy 12 page wrap up of the days events.  It's certainly not hard hitting news and it just skims the surface, but that's probably the point.  It's a brief overview so you know what to dig into that night.

We'll see what tomorrow's Star P.M. brings.

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