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To: SeekAndFind
A bit of an aside but newspaper reading in general appears to have gone the way of eating Aunt Mabel's jello molds for dessert - the jello molds with bits of lettuce and carrots in them.

I remember taking the commuter trains into the city and virtually every worker bee had his/her head buried in a newspaper during the ride. At Grand Central in NYC, there were gargantuan trash bins along all the train platforms for the arriving commuters to dump their newspapers. On the commute home, many would pick up the "evening" edition for the ride home, sold mostly by aggressive yelling "newsboys" shouting variations of "extra, extra, read all about it."

Now all those bins are gone. People now have their faces buried in various devices from smartphones to tablets.

I don't even bother with newspapers online. Too many annoying popups and paywalls.


53 posted on 01/06/2024 11:48:13 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76

I think you know this—but on the off chance you do not—you can override any newspaper paywall with this link:

https://archive.vn/siMaL

Often there is an option for text only so you can get rid of any extraneous junk on the page.


57 posted on 01/06/2024 12:37:56 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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