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Haven't more than glanced at a daily paper in years; I get all my news on the internet from forums, links, blogs, etc., because I know what I will get from the MSM, and it's not what I want to read. Happened to see a copy of our local big-city newspaper left on the next table at coffee shop at breakfast and picked it up to page through it. It felt so natural to hold it up, flip through the pages two-handed till I saw something I wanted to read, then fold it back, and back some more to make it a manageable size. I'd much rather read from something physical in my hands than from a computer screen in front of me. Too bad what's happened to journalism as I think of it from decades ago. | ||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Problem is, I would guestimate that about 90% of what you see online, or even on FNC or CNN or wherever, is not "journalism". Rather, it is opinion. I agree with you though, I fondly remember walking out in the morning and pulling the paper from the tube and enjoying it over a morning cup of coffee, finishing up with the crossword and cryptoquote. It was a morning ritual. It would be nice to go back to the days of real journalism. Report what happened, in an unbiased way. Opinion should be left to the editorial page. Everything else should be simply fact. The internet and modern day TV with 24 hour news/opinion will be our downfall. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
I used to enjoy perusing the classified ads. There were several pages of them. Now there’s only a half page and there’s usually nothing there worth looking at. | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
The two Detroit daily newspapers now alternate days in print, the remainder of the time they are online. Occasionally I will buy a Sunday Free Press mainly for the comics. The rest of it I can ignore in total. Once in a while there will be a good feature, more often not. Our local paper prints on a seven day basis. Gannett owned, I'll leave it at that. Reminds me of a line I heard many years ago during a newspaper strike in Albuquerque "They're killing good trees to make a poor newspaper." -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
We cancelled the local paper several years ago, nothing in it worth reading, full of advertisements for furniture, cars, even the funny pages wasn't interesting.... Of course the obviously bias reporting didn't help, our paper is owned by Shitcago Tribune once they bought it the paper went to turdsville USA | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
We still get the paper because my wife is technologically handicapped.  I only use it for starting the fireplace.I, on the other hand enjoy getting my current news events, comics and sports online. I still do it while drinking my morning coffee as before. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
In some cases it is opinion. In many cases, IMO, it is more wishful thinking! Way back when (1968) when we had come back to the states (Maryland) we took the local fish wrapper. Until it got so bad (remember, this was in 1968) that we canceled it, and have not taken a newspaper since then. I occasionally pick up one from a stack of those "free" papers at the local Food lion. Great for starting the wood stove in the morning. Never read it. That news print beats hell out of those slick advertisements we get in the mail all the time. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Somehow I clicked on this thinking it was from the Screaming Cockatoo. He needed something extra under the Cockatoo Tree. Newspapers also came in handy for masking a two tone paint job. You guys are funny when you talk about actually reading the stuff. | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
We subscribe to our daily tiny-town newspaper. It's a positive for us.  | |||
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goodheart |
I miss believing newspapers gave out accurate, reliable, timely and objective information. It would take a lot to make that come back, and I don’t think it can happen. For one thing, Craigslist destroyed classified advertising all over the country, and nothing has replaced that large cash cow. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes |
The print newspaper here, The Denver Post, has become the Washington Post West. The staff has been reduced to a skeleton crew. Not a great paper these days. But...I still have it delivered. I've read the newspaper every morning for as long as I can really remember. I get the online version with the subscription but that's not the same. My Father passed away in 2009. He was one hell of a good guy. Almost the exact day that the Rocky Mountain News shut down operations. One sad time for me. I truly miss them both. _______________________ “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ― Frank Zappa | |||
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| Honor and Integrity |
I miss my newspaper, because that's what I save to light my wood stove with during the winter. | |||
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I pick up the Sunday paper for my girlfriend. She gets coupons and likes the Sunday routine of reading the paper. The comics usually have 1 or 2 good ones. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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I still subscribe to the Mining Urinal. I mean Journal. They print stories the local TV folks wont and it is a good source of info for community events. As far as actual news.... Not much to be found in it. And I do the puzzle. Oddly enough, the word scramble puzzle is.... Australian! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
From Dr. Michael Crichton (M.D., creator of ER and Jurassic Park, Critic of man made Global Warming, etc.)
Full article here: http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/ "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Me too! Just last night I couldn't get the GD GFCI plug by the BGE to work in order to light the charcoal with my Looftlighter. I found myself wishing I had a newspaper to wad up and put in my chimney charcoal starter. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Not me. Not one bit. Last time I subscribed to a publication, the WSJ back in the early mid 90s- I stopped because for 2 years, I was throwing away the paper still wrapped in plastic. The above Murray GellMann explanation was how I felt back then. And I still have the same opinion now; I don't watch TV news and I rarely glance at any mainstream news online publications (FoxNews included). I pretty much get news from this site, and if the thread title is interesting, I will read. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited  |
Once upon a time I subscribed to Wall St. Journal, Seattle Times, Kitsap Sun (county fishwrap), Time, New Republic, The Economist, The New Yorker, Harper's, and a couple of other professional journals. I was perhaps the hippest most misinformed individual on the planet. By 2005 I was down to the WSJ; as the price went up my interest went down and of course Peggy Noonan decided to piss me off. I now receive a couple of outdoor magazines because of support for a couple of groups and that's it and I'm the better for it. I listen to friends and neighbors and I hear a stream of unconsciousness that must make the press-pimps proud with their having convinced so many that libels, invective and veiled and not-so-veiled threats are journalism. I'd rather read the scrivenings of our own closet lefties on The Forum; their opinions blow but they tend to have their facts right. The Legacy Media has secured its position as the antiquated-media, a curiosity to show your friends, not a particularly useful item, except as above-mentioned fish-wrap and the ever useful fire-starter. _______________________ | |||
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And that paper, The Orlando Sentinel, is just about on death's door at this point. Personally, I can't wait to see them board up that building in downtown once and for all. Every time I make the mistake of picking a copy up at the doctor's office or elsewhere and attempting to plow through a couple stories, I end up with a headache dealing with the grammar, spelling, and missing words/phrases issues. It 'used' to be written for a six year old. It doesn't even reach that bar anymore. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
I hate newspapers.  They're not current. Total Liberal bias. They take up way too much room. I told my wife that if she dies before me I'm cancelling the paper even before her obit.  | |||
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