"People are passing newspapers along, particularly on Sunday".
Taking its place, of course, is the Internet, which is about to pass newspapers as a source of political news for American readers.
But Facebook stands to benefit the most because Mr Zuckerberg and his colleagues have cleverly positioned the site as a "social utility", as he once put it, which lets people do all kinds of things, from passing on newspaper articles to playing games or posting photos of themselves, their friends or their pets.
They hustle along the scuffed pink-and-white tile in the port's pedestrian tunnel, passing pharmacies, newspaper stands and tables laden with tamales and pan dulce before joining the long line next to a sign that warns of guard dogs on duty.
The woman, who makes a living passing out newspapers to commuters, was not the only one sharing such statistics during the annual equal pay day.
The newspaper industry convinced Congress in 1970 to pass the Newspaper Preservation Act, which allowed morning and afternoon papers in the same cities to form Joint Operating Agreements for sharing printing operations.
Another passed around newspaper articles with the words "bigot" and "anti-immigrant" underlined.
My mother and I were travelling home to Ibadan from Lagos, Nigeria, and she passed the newspaper to me when she tired of my relentless chatter.
The leak was exposed by an anonymous whistleblower who passed the newspaper a memory stick containing files on 2,000 of the bank's customers, the paper said.
Then I passed a newspaper kiosk and I saw all the headlines: 'BRANSON SELLS FOR A BILLION.' I remember thinking, Well, this will make an incredibly strange picture if anyone should catch it".
