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I don't subscribe to a local newspaper because there's very little good content in them. The only paper I get now is the Wallstreet Journal. It still has high quality content, but it's not local.
I don't subscribe to a local newspaper because there's very little good content in them. The only paper I get now is the Wallstreet Journal. It still has high quality content, but it's not local.
Location: East St. Paul 651 forever (or North St. Paul) .
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Liberal slant. Their Internet version is free (and you can comment ASAP) It's also small as crap and has basically three sections - News, sports, and A&E+Classifieds.
When the price went up from 75¢ to a dollar. I'm not interested in being perched on the computer all day, and like newpapers (just as I'd rather curl up with a book than a Nook), but we now only get our local paper on Sundays.
Ever since middle school I'd get the paper and read it in the morning with my bowl of cereal, a tradition continuing till this day (I'm 31). My tablet will not be happy if I spill milk or coffee on it (a real risk if the kids are around the table at the time); the newspaper doesn't mind much.
The local paper is decent (Roanoke Times) but the leftward slant is getting hard to tolerate. I like the local news and keeping my finger on its pulse, but if it reaches the point where the statism overwhelms me I'll drop it.
Funny - I didn't see a single comment saying that they cancelled the paper due to a right-wing slant. Lots of comments saying the paper was going left-wing.
Maybe time for editors and newspaper owners to take a hard look at the objectivity of the newsroom.
Actually, the piece of trash Examiner was mentioned in Post-77. And despite what extremists may believe, the typical newspaper is conservative and to the right of center. It's just that some people are so far from the center that anything in that direction looks like a leftist rag to them.
Indeed. One of the few (if there are any others) that still do true reporting without slanting towards one side (excluding the opinion section which is all over the place... but it's expected in that section).
I cancelled my newspaper subscriptions long ago, before the internet even. It was easier to just pick up a Sunday paper when we went out to breakfast, it's the only day we had time to lounge around and read and it had the inserts. We never had time to read them daily and once we got online there was no need for anything. They produced too much trash, got my fingers dirty, made a mess in the house, and felt like money was just being tossed every time I put them in the garbage can. I haven't subscribed to a magazine or newspaper in over 10 years.
Good stuff online isn't always that easy to find though, you have to search for it.
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