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Dec. 4 2014 1:45 PM

This Is in No Way the Perfect Visual Metaphor for the State of the Newspaper Industry

By Will Oremus

The story below has no particular symbolic significance. It is just a local news item about an overturned truck that spilled its payload, tying up traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway. This happens sometimes when trucks drive on roads.

Here is a picture of the truck.

A @nytimes truck overturned outside Philadelphia this morning, spilling out newspapers. http://t.co/Wq34mDm5Pg pic.twitter.com/8xdt7LUZew
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) December 4, 2014

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