[Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - the answer for slim

[Slim]

John,

The sliding TV trays?  You mean the "Table-Mate?"  Got 'em.  8-)

Slim

On 1/18/07 5:17 PM, "john Belanger" <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> slim
> the comforting parts of newspaper reading are not enough to stand up to the
> immediacy of  news. the first time you say something to someone about
> something you read (other than sports scores which are serialized events) and
> they say something like "oh, haven't you heard the latest", the newspaper
> loses some ground. i hate to say it but we have to rememvber that the
> newspaper business is a business and like a typical business it has to be a
> successful business model to succeed. what you really need is one of those
> sliding tv trays for the laptop in the john.
> 
> Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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