Black and White and Read all over...
Oct. 29th, 2008 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy parents and grandparents (both sides) started every day with the newspaper. And so do I. I always have. But, I'm beginning to wonder if I always will.
We have two morning daily newspapers in Seattle. Earlier this year, after many years, I switched from one to the other because the one had dropped all of my favorite newspapery things. Now the other one has pretty much done the same. And I'm thinking about saying good bye to it, too. The daily edition has shrunk down to Hardly Worth The Effort and the Sunday paper is a shadow of its former self.
Yesterday the Christian Science Monitor gave up the daily ghost. News reports of its end stated that newspapers nationwide have seen a drop in circulation.
If all of them have gotten as crappy as our newspapers here, I can certainly understand the drop in circulation. The cost has gone up $40 over the past year so that now I'm paying $240 a year for this nearly worse every day experience.
Neither one of the papers has an online edition that I'm comfortable with. At least not so far. But for $240 a year, I could probably deal.
I pay the bill quarterly and I just paid it for this quarter. My Google calendar will ping me in about 2.5 months to reconsider resubscribing. Between now and then I'm going to continue to look at each edition with a 'what would today have been like had I not read that' point of view.
We shall see.
We have two morning daily newspapers in Seattle. Earlier this year, after many years, I switched from one to the other because the one had dropped all of my favorite newspapery things. Now the other one has pretty much done the same. And I'm thinking about saying good bye to it, too. The daily edition has shrunk down to Hardly Worth The Effort and the Sunday paper is a shadow of its former self.
Yesterday the Christian Science Monitor gave up the daily ghost. News reports of its end stated that newspapers nationwide have seen a drop in circulation.
If all of them have gotten as crappy as our newspapers here, I can certainly understand the drop in circulation. The cost has gone up $40 over the past year so that now I'm paying $240 a year for this nearly worse every day experience.
Neither one of the papers has an online edition that I'm comfortable with. At least not so far. But for $240 a year, I could probably deal.
I pay the bill quarterly and I just paid it for this quarter. My Google calendar will ping me in about 2.5 months to reconsider resubscribing. Between now and then I'm going to continue to look at each edition with a 'what would today have been like had I not read that' point of view.
We shall see.
