One Thing Newsprint is Still Good for: Home Alone 5

The slow death of print media has – and will continue to be – quantified in many different ways. But thanks to the warm 2011-12 winter, one oddly profitable end of the newspaper business is getting another workout in Winnipeg.

That’s where the ABC Family TV movie Home Alone 5: Alone in the Dark has run away to location shoot. And because there is no snow on the ground, the first week’s round of exterior Christmas shots has had to be faked… using old newspapers.

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