Kevin G. Barnhurst, After Modernism, su American Media in the XX Century: Chapter 1 (part 5), University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006. URL consultato il 3 maggio 2007.
«The mélange of styles and practices in printed and now web-based newspapers, although postmodern in terms of scholarly and design thinking, might more meaningfully be understood as neo-Victorian. The new styles, embodied most famously in USA Today and its clones, mark a return to the mystifying abundance of facts and stories that newspapers of the industrial revolution made visually present to readers.»