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Friday, September 17 2010

Can You Imagine Standing in Line Just for a Newspaper?

By Kit MacFarlane

'Suddenly and with little warning: STRIKE!' So began a 17-day newspaper delivery strike that prevented newspapers from getting to newsstands and doorsteps, as immortalised in the 1945 short, 17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making.

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