Ditching the newspaper
We've decided to let our subscription to the Durham Herald-Sun lapse. This is for a few reasons. Living on the internet as I do, I find it rarer over time to find an article in the paper that I haven't already seen yesterday. Normally I love the letters to the editor column, but ours is dominated by a dozen or so cranks spewing the same crap every 30 days and I'm sick of all of them but one, and he's the one everybody else is sick of. The only real change we would have to make is to start reading comics online and get some morning puzzles for Pam.
We used to have a really special newspaper here in Durham until it was sold several months ago to out of town idiots whose very first act was to fire most of the staff (including almost all of the reporters and editors with whom I had spent years developing positive relationships) and have them escorted out by security. That near the top of the list of scummy corporate moves, just below stealing the pension funds. I wanted to give new management a chance but I guess I've never really gotten over this.
The notion of switching to the Raleigh News & Observer is a total nonstarter. While I have professional respect for a lot of folks who work there, I could never stand to start my day with their liberal pap. Ugh. The one column I must read there is online anyway.
The surprising thing about all this is how very dispassionate I am about this decision. I absolutely love newspapers. I love living in a state where every little town has one. For cryin' out loud, I taught myself to read at age two from newspapers and a book of Greek mythology. (I imagine that explains a lot, haha.) So you'd think I'd display a little more emotional attachment here.
Maybe I'll feel differently when they actually stop delivering it.
posted by genushaha @ 9:08 PM
3 Comments:
You've got to get the Sunday paper at least! Otherwise how do you know whether Michael's has a 40% off coupon this week or which store has toilet paper on sale so you can bulk buy? :)
That's the main reason for getting the paper these days when all the news that's remotely interesting is already on the 'net.
P.S. I get "Get Fuzzy" emailed to me every morning from comics.com.
Ah, I forgot about the Michael's coupon! That is a serious issue in this household.
ray did the same thing a few months ago... just let his subscription lapse. he was pissed about the layoffs, but primarily i think he felt like he was wasting his money if he couldn't get through the entire paper every day. (often, the first thing he would read were the letters to the editor, then the rest would sit on the floor in his bathroom for a week, unread.)
occasionally we buy the sunday paper -- for the coupons. i'm a big grocery coupon user. (that makes me sound like i'm 70 years old, doesn't it?)
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