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Demand for post-Super Bowl XLIV Times-Picayune “extraordinary”

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"By noon Monday, The Times-Picayune had printed at least 200,000 copies over its ordinary number of single-copy papers — and the printing presses were still running to keep up with the extraordinary demand for newspapers proclaiming the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl victory," Mark Fitzgerald writes, quoting Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss as saying, "It’s a totally moving target. The presses are still going and we are trying to satisfy a demand which doesn’t seem to slack." Fitzgerald writes that a normal press run for single-copy sales would be about 25,000.
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