Wherever you live in the world, a free newspaper has probably popped up. Maybe two or three. They're only about 4 pages thick, and designed to be read in 10 minutes (I haven't properly tested the theory)

The Netherlands has 3. Correction, there are now 4 of these things. Which kind of defeats the purpose... 4 free newspapers, 10 minutes each.. isn't that the equivalent of one normal newspaper minus the quality journalism?

Whatever the case, that seems to be the trend at every train station. Big bins or people reaching out to hand you there free newspaper. One after another: Metro, Spits, De Pers, and now DAG!

Meanwhile if you walk to your local supermarket you'll find annoying people trying to sign you up for the traditional broadsheets, which still do quality journalism covering the globe, but their subscriber numbers have plummeted.

Of course if you don't read Dutch, you can try to ignore all these papers and all these people. But even the English language press is getting competitive.