The weight of recession

Spot On's Alexander McNabb has been conducting an interesting experiment: weighing various issues of Gulf News, after discovering one was a little light in the hand.

His first post revealed GN had plunged almost 50% in weight, to a paltry 690g on 11 December. Surely this emaciated newspaper was a dire threat of the recession to come?

Happily, Gulf News is back up to a plumper 1.2kg today it seems. Recession over - back to the trough...