Posted on 09/28/2016 10:26:50 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
That’s really saying something!
I’m stealing that if its okay?
My mid-80’s mom brought up cancelling the newspaper the other day - the price of a subscription was going up, plus they have shortened the time between payments. She figured the cost annually & was not happy. I talked her into keeping it for now because my mid-90’s dad LOVES the sports section. He follows his favorite college teams and would be lost without it - at his age, anything that makes him happy is worth keeping for now.
The funny thing is that in the last month or two, I’ve gotten her looking at Free Republic and Drudge ... that is now where she’s getting her news. In the last couple of days, she’s started really reading the FR comments and I hear her laughing out loud in the kitchen (where her little laptop is located). Last night, she was telling my dad how funny some of the comments on FR have been (debate, etc.). Once dad is no longer around (won’t be long - expect within a year), the paper will be gone. So will the landline & probably cable TV.
Look for the deep discount “please come back” deal, accept, then cancel in the following week.
After we cancelled our subscription to the Tampa Tribune,we received those offers for about three years before they gave up. In fact, they ended up almost paying us to take it.
Me too - used to subscribe to the Sun Herald in the Biloxi area - then they were bought by McClatchy and I promptly canceled. Never looked back.
In my younger days I used to love sitting down with the Sunday paper and a cup of coffee. Lots of great reporting, special features and local flavor. The last Sunday paper I looked at was 90% ads.
Our years in Haiti were traumatic as I had to depend on reading the eight page French language daily, controlled by BabyDoc or pay $3-5.00 for a days-old Miami Herald that might show up in a shop. Shortwave radio was almost our only connection to world and US events.
Coming back to the US the daily subscription continued until we arrived at GreenAcres. Two years of abuse from the AJC was what it took to wean me and I am now approaching 10 years sober (...of a commie newspaper subscription). Will see the print AJC occasionally in a coffee shop and able to verify that I am missing nothing!
Thank GOD for FreeRepublic and news consolidators like Drudge.
this is why internet control turnover is being moved outside the united states.
The old media HATES free speech by anyone except the old media.
“Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads,” .....
Allow me to translate: “Trump holds the media in as much contempt as the rest of the people do.....”
Yes. Many years ago our local paper did an expose on what firefighters make. All they did was post their income and worth of their benefits. They didn’t explain that the guys making the big money did so because of overtime. They were gone for months on large fires.
We cancelled our subscription along with every other firefighter in the county. Never went back.
Wow.
Yep!
“The Republic, is owned by Gannett.”
I did not know this and it explains a lot!
I’ve read the WSJ for years, and they certainly aren’t apolitical; a globalist cheerleader if there ever was one.
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