Free newspaper Pravda launched with not entirely serious content
Zurich now has one more free newspaper. Starting this week, distributors have been handing out the new paper *Prawda*, which translates to “truth.” Its eight pages feature fictional stories and advertisements.
Zurich has one more free newspaper. Since this week, colporteurs have been distributing the new paper Prawda, which translates as truth. It contains eight pages of made-up stories and advertisements. The lead story of the first edition is a review of Barack Obama's two weeks in office, according to an article in the Tages-Anzeiger on Thursday. The US President did not attend the Wef in Davos and therefore cannot be taxed on a flat-rate basis, it says, among other things. The classifieds section also offers a "geranium fertilization course for assholes" or "candle making for cocaine addicts".
The content of Prawda is not meant to be deadly serious, editor-in-chief, publisher and chief ideologist René Louis Bommeli is quoted as saying in the Tages-Anzeiger. He came up with the idea of his own newspaper because he was fed up with the monotony that the free newspapers printed every day. From now on, an edition with a print run of 10,000 copies will be published every Tuesday. The project is financed by advertisements and patrons.
The content of Prawda is not meant to be deadly serious, editor-in-chief, publisher and chief ideologist René Louis Bommeli is quoted as saying in the Tages-Anzeiger. He came up with the idea of his own newspaper because he was fed up with the monotony that the free newspapers printed every day. From now on, an edition with a print run of 10,000 copies will be published every Tuesday. The project is financed by advertisements and patrons.
