USA Today

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

USA Today is a rag, no two ways about it but it makes light reading on a flight before you drop off to sleep. It has a warped sense of priorities. So the front page will carry a story like 'Padres beat Dodgers, 16 to 7 (and if you are American, please forgive me if I have mixed sports here but you get the idea.) Inside, tucked away amidst news of church meetings in Minnesota, a dominoes match in Texas and a sewing bee in Idaho, you find a little paragraph saying '300,000 dead in Pakistani earthquake.'

But it has one saving grace. The back page carries a weather map for the USA in full colour. It is the finest weather map in the world.