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"It's appalling to think that the man who runs the country somehow finds time for a long gym workout each day, but can't muster up the intellectual curiosity to peruse the newspaper. Is it laziness, arrogance or a willful combination of the two?

I used to work for several newspapers, including the LA Times, Herald Examiner, the Washington Post, (and the Washington Star way back when). I KNOW what they do with the news...they slant/spin/arrange everything to fit their agenda. Even when they don't write it, they take wire stories where they aren't allowed to change anything (except the headline) and edit out ANY paragraph that doesn't "fit" their agenda.

Except for our VERY local "free sheet" that covers local town issues, I've not read a line in the newspaper since the Internet came along. Still, I guarantee that I know more about what's going on then 99% of people that read any "major" newspaper from cover to cover every day...including "journalists" that still work for those same papers. I'm sure there are many here that can say the same.

"Except for our VERY local "free sheet" that covers local town issues, I've not read a line in the newspaper since the Internet came along. Still, I guarantee that I know more about what's going on then 99% of people that read any "major" newspaper from cover to cover every day...including "journalists" that still work for those same papers. I'm sure there are many here that can say the same."

I gave up the Louisville rag about 10 years ago, should have done it 5 years earlier but I liked the Sunday crossword. It got to the point that the first 2 paragraphs slanted the whole story. There simply are not enough local stories that intrest me. I am not intrested in the local stick up's, what the various basketball, football, track teams are doing.

The feature articles were a total joke. I canceled my subscription with the welfare reform debate. This supposed unbiased series was a total barf.

The fear mongering when the legislature passed concealed carry was a puke fest.

No matter what the local story was they had to seek out a minority voice and point out what a "local black businessman" had to say about a wedding , a sale on shoes, new styles in brassiers. A minority opinion isn't necessary on everything, what the hell happened to reporting facts.

I think most of it was column filler, like a bunch of teenagers filling a term paper with fluff to come up with the right number of pages.

Why in the world would GW want to waste his time reading tripe?