Welcome to physical media heaven! Part coffee shop, part analog-focused retail.
In the age of algorithmic streaming services, an artificial intelligence trained on maximizing profits has been put in charge of determining what knowledge human beings are allowed to access. Critical cultural artifacts are removed at random, scrubbed from existence, never to be seen or heard from again. The illusion of choice masks a sinister underbelly: Thousands upon thousands of priceless documents deemed worthless by a computer have never been made available or were once available and are now gone, replaced by generic, machine-generated slop.
The Newsagent always puts preservation over profits because he knows value means more than money. Literature, music, movies, artwork of questionable taste and merit -- the Newsagent preserves it all without judgement. He believes anything and everything deserves a chance to be discovered and enjoyed, not just what happens to be in everyone's feed.
