They're half the size of what they used to be 20 years ago and they're inserted into my local Gannett paper. The color format has changed. It is nothing but reports on celebrities, sports, and the obligatory criticism of Republicans because they didn't fund this enough etc.
There is no hard news anywhere in the paper.
You are so correct and it’s a shame. My first job was delivering newspapers and USA Today was one of them. It was slick, colorful, informative and I suppose for the times cutting edge. Now it is a colored rag run by leftist morons like most dying newspapers of today.