NY Slimes used only as an example...
The Alabama Media Group is the new business arm of Advance Publications in AL. Their business execs have been working overtime to prepare us for the transition. It is very obvious they want to drive the new media into the digital age and force folks to look up their daily news feed on the internet.
The Birmingham News editorial page fell off the cliff 2 years ago with a change in ownership. Extreme leftist editorial cartoons and extreme leftist national opinion columns are the new norm.
Would like to hear comments from those of you who use smart phones as your primary tool for reading the news. Do you still read your local newspaper for local and state content?
It would seem that in Alabama and Louisiana, respectively, they should publish daily papers devoted to stories, news and pics about the Saints, the Bengals, and the Crimson Tide. No problem selling ads, I suspect, and they could put a little news on the back ( formerly sports) pages.
We subscribed to the TPSI 27 years ago while living in Southern Mississippi. This is not unexpected but it is now personal and shocking. As a news carrier (paperboy) 40+ years ago I feel even more the march of technology. Wow!
1. How old ARE you people that you still subscribe to a dead-tree-and-ink delivery service?
2. Why are you voluntarily feeding the most anachronistic of the MSM’s branches?
I’m old enough to have developed the habit of reading the paper every day at breakfast. Now my local fishwrap has gone to the 3 day schedule, and they are charging the same as for 7 days, so they can stick it.
I regret the average Joe losing his job, I really do. OTOH, I don't mind reading that the newsroom staffers are going to hit the street. They and their bosses help bring this onto themselves by tilting their reporting toward the left and alienating their loyal readers.
Adios, amigos.
My primary tool for reading the news is called www.freerepublic.com. After that it is Drudge. For this I use a computer, a tablet and a smartphone, whichever I have handy. For example, I’m in the den at my desk on the computer. Latter tonight in the bedroom I’ll use my Kindle Fire. In the John I might read Drudge on the Droid phone.
My wife only gets the Sunday paper for the ads. Other than that, we do not want to subsidize leftist rags.
Wish the Montgomery Advertiser would go bankrupt.
NY Slimes used only as an example...