Paper as a medium of communication is increasingly obsolete, but responding to this challenge by embracing the lunatic Left turns slow death into rapid suicide.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
In the 90s, we stopped getting the local paper since most articles in it were from the NY Times, Washington Post or Reuters. Very little local writers. Why bother? We started to get the NY Times directly.
By 2012, we had drop it. It would never give Bush’s speeches like all previous presidents and every article was a view point. Against Republicans. When Obama came along it was the second coming, he could do no wrong.
My wife was reluctant to cancel it but I was able to show her multiple times that it was lying in multiple articles. Eventually she agreed that it wasn’t worth getting.
Newspapers committed suicide.
I have a gander at British papers, which still undertake some reporting. There’s also the New York Post.
Glenn Reynolds description of newsmen who ‘cover’ public affairs is ‘garbage people paid to lie for the Democratic Party’. This is who they want to be.
I wish I could muster some kind of regret at the imminent passing away of what once was a respected institution, but I cannot. And looking at famous quotations about the newspaper business going back many years, I believe it likely that such respect was always misplaced. The veneer of professionalism and respectability seems always to have been just that. The rank and file people who actually took seriously the classical notions of journalistic professionalism are long gone, and I suspect they always were being fooled in any case.
My husband and I were happy to cancel The Wall Street Journal several years ago. Occasionally an opinion piece was good, but Peggy Noonan got very tiresome. We enjoyed reading Jason Gay’s sports comments, and the daily cartoon was often memorable. All in all not worth the price. We had cancelled our local daily many years ago.
I get the Sunday Paper only (SF Chronicle) because Dad like to read the death notices and “Dagwood”. At $3.30 it’s a waste, and has been for over 10 years.
😁”learn to code”
as they say on Family Feud “Good Answer”
“Content, integrity” also would still be good answers-
Some of us really still like the old linear life, comfortably reading, able to re read and digest, look up footnotes, etc
“The rank and file people who actually took seriously the classical notions of journalistic professionalism are long gone, and I suspect they always were being fooled in any case.”
I was one of those for nearly 20 years. Guess those years were wasted and I can never get them back.
My dad used to read 4 to 5 newspapers a day. It’s in my blood. My husband no longer takes takes the WSJ. It is not what it was is an understatement.
I subscribe to the paper version.of THE EPOCH TIMES, a weekly that is like a Sunday paper. Front page section A, Opinion A, Mind & Body B, Life & Tradition C, Home D. Daily email newsletter is inclluded with the paper version. Dare I say, it has a Christian and conservative slant. There are 2 pages of word and math puzzles, bios, history, art, recipes, parenting, health, letters to the editor and editorials. Some comics.
Great investigative reporting too. I give a 3 month subscription to my conservative friends as birthday presents.
After I returned to the ‘States in 2005, I had subscribed to the local (medium-size city) newspaper for a time. During the later 80s, I had thought this the premier newspaper in the state. After a few months though, I noticed something troubling: I wasn’t reading it much; what I DID read of it mostly annoyed me where it didn’t make me mad. About the only thing worth reading in it…was the Sunday comics.
I wound up canceling the subscription.
I later had a subscription to the Wall Street Journal while pursuing an MBA; I ended deciding that wasn’t worth it either. They talked almost as much about preferred “progressive” causes as they did anything of business.
I think there are better ways to spend money, yet stay informed.