[Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad

[TN Rhodey]

Slim,

I canceled our paper about 6 months ago. I don't miss it at all. Plenty of 
info on line.....try magazines for your time on the throne.

Wally


>From: Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net>
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:37:35 -0600
>
>Brad,
>
>My favorite local rag, The Star Tribune AND the St. Paul Pioneer Press are
>both going down in flames.  The Strib was just sold in a rushed deal the 
>day
>after Christmas to pay for MaClatchy's CEO, Gary Pruitt's capitol gains
>taxes.  After only a few weeks now both papers are shadows of their former
>selves with newsmen running for the door like lemmings.  Now would be a 
>good
>time to try to lure your favorite Strib columnist, Katherine Kerston to
>Memphis.  (The only good news.)
>
>Papers across the country are losing readership because more are getting
>their news on the web.  Or is it more are on the web because papers are
>providing less?  Note: Minneapolis is the most web-connected city in the US
>per capita.  I won't read 32 pages online but I will in print.  A lot of
>folks read themselves to sleep at night.  I read myself awake and that
>coffee and paper thing has been a mainstay for ever.
>
>Sadly, I no longer feel I'm getting my money's worth from the Strib and I'm
>canceling my subscription after...well, after a lifetime since my parents
>always got the paper and so have I as an adult received the paper at my
>doorstep every day.  Now what am I going to do?  How am I supposed to get
>out of bed with nothing to read with my coffee?  How am I supposed to take 
>a
>dump without the sports page?  Imagine me sitting there on the throne with
>my laptop.  No, don't.  Sorry for that visual.  These are life-long habits
>and I bummed.
>
>Slim
>
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