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Old 09-02-2014, 06:22 PM
 
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What is most popular in the area? Is it the Herald-Tribune or something out of Tampa bay or maybe Miami? We couldn't get a newspaper where we lived for the last four years, and it's time to start up again.
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Old 09-02-2014, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, FL
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Herald Tribune is probably the most popular outdated delivery in Sarasota. Personally, Google News is great.
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Old 09-02-2014, 07:23 PM
 
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The Observer is kind of cool and it is free (weekly). Local news is fun in a new location.
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Old 09-04-2014, 11:41 AM
 
Location: sarasota
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herald tribune delivered seven days a week is about $65/quarter
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Old 09-04-2014, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Naples & Sarasota Florida
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FYI I ended up canceling the Herald Tribune because they are soooo liberal that anything that negatively effects their agenda, they just don't write about it. There would be major stories/facts that just went unreported due to their politics. Even the editorals were intentionally selected to follow their agenda. Crime stories would intentionally leave out race, etc. How am I supposed to be on the look out for a male, approx. 24 yrs old who is on the run? If the criminal is white, they state it. Anything else, it is left up to the imagination. Way too PC.

I am an Independent voter but my God,at least report the facts honestly and let US form our own opinion.

Locally I would go with the Observer which is free and world news, etc., I would go with WSJ.
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Old 09-04-2014, 01:47 PM
 
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FYI I ended up canceling the Herald Tribune because they are soooo liberal that anything that negatively effects their agenda, they just don't write about it. There would be major stories/facts that just went unreported due to their politics. Even the editorals were intentionally selected to follow their agenda. Crime stories would intentionally leave out race, etc. How am I supposed to be on the look out for a male, approx. 24 yrs old who is on the run? If the criminal is white, they state it. Anything else, it is left up to the imagination. Way too PC.

I am an Independent voter but my God,at least report the facts honestly and let US form our own opinion.

Locally I would go with the Observer which is free and world news, etc., I would go with WSJ.
Agree with all of this- spot on.
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Old 09-04-2014, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Sarasota FL
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One claim you will never read on the front or editorial page of the Herald-Tribune - 'We are fair and balanced'. But if you want to read Democrat propaganda, the Herald Tribune is for you.
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Old 09-05-2014, 08:08 AM
 
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I take only one periodical the WSJ..


Every paper has a political bent whether it's the WSJ, The Washington Times, the NY Times, St Louis Post Dispatch, The Atlanta Constitution.....liberal, conservative etc...


News is not news anymore...just look at the garbage of MSNBC, the total muck of FOX News, CNN lost its way.


I just read the AP news wire for straight facts....or maybe the Bloomberg. We used to get straight news even from the BBC, not so much anymore. The Australian Press is fairly good on worldwide issue, so was the Jerusalem Post until it got to be a Zionist rag.


Locally, the only paper I care to read for content is the St Petersburg/TAMPA BAY Times.


The local herald tribune is good sometimes, and fish-wrap sometimes.


Everything seems biased in 2014. The days of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley are gone...now you have idiots like Sean Hannity, and Rachel Maddow.....enough to make you simply get physically ill.
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Old 09-05-2014, 08:25 AM
 
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The days of good to great newspapers seem gone as well. In the south/Midwest there still are fairly good well-written for content papers that I have found good - some, however quite bad over the years :


The Atlanta Constitution - Decent to Good
The Arkansas Gazette - Good (yes I said good)
The Miami Herald - Fair
The Tampa Tribune - Fair
The Orlando Sentinel - Bad to Fair
The Huntsville Times (north AL) - Decent
The Birmingham News - Bad to Fair
The Jackson Sun (midsouth and MS) - Bad
The Commercial Appeal (midsouth and Memphis) - Bad
The Jacksonville Time-Union - Bad to Fair
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Decent to Good




I used to have a minimum of three papers delivered, plus the Sunday New York Times, but I can get most regional content/local stories online in those respective cities.


By far, many papers have turned into fish-wrap filled with aggravating advertising circulars that fall out of the paper - very annoying.
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Old 09-07-2014, 10:19 AM
 
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The Herald if you want local news. I never found it to be any different than any other newspaper. I think it is a decent paper and most of the world news has been taken from other newspapers.
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