[Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad

[Slim]

Brad,

I try the Strib online when I'm on the raod but it has its problems.  For
example, I was going to send you the link to Garrison Keilor's recent column
on the vanishing newspaper but the online Strib doesn't publish GK.  Why do
you suppose?

Slim

On 1/18/07 5:08 PM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slim,
> 
> I read the STRIB online like everyone else.  Kerston wouldn't last a day in
> this town.  We have Wendy Thomas, the exact political opposite of Katherine
> but the same role.  I'm batting a 1000 against Wendy so far, two for two.
> This is sad to watch.  You can get better news analysis on the blogs but you
> have to sift through the shit.  Come to think of it, not that much different
> than reading the newspaper.  The 'ole grey lady', otherwise known as the New
> York Times, has the cross-hairs on her as well.  We'll be left with Gannett,
> AP, and Rueters.  None of them are very impressive.  You are correct, the
> visual of you on the throne with a laptop is not  pretty.  Please don't put
> a webcam on the computer!
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> On 1/18/07, Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Brad,
>> 
>> My favorite local rag, The Star Tribune AND the St. Paul Pioneer Press are
>> both going down in flames.  The Strib was just sold in a rushed deal the
>> day
>> after Christmas to pay for MaClatchy's CEO, Gary Pruitt's capitol gains
>> taxes.  After only a few weeks now both papers are shadows of their former
>> selves with newsmen running for the door like lemmings.  Now would be a
>> good
>> time to try to lure your favorite Strib columnist, Katherine Kerston to
>> Memphis.  (The only good news.)
>> 
>> Papers across the country are losing readership because more are getting
>> their news on the web.  Or is it more are on the web because papers are
>> providing less?  Note: Minneapolis is the most web-connected city in the
>> US
>> per capita.  I won't read 32 pages online but I will in print.  A lot of
>> folks read themselves to sleep at night.  I read myself awake and that
>> coffee and paper thing has been a mainstay for ever.
>> 
>> Sadly, I no longer feel I'm getting my money's worth from the Strib and
>> I'm
>> canceling my subscription after...well, after a lifetime since my parents
>> always got the paper and so have I as an adult received the paper at my
>> doorstep every day.  Now what am I going to do?  How am I supposed to get
>> out of bed with nothing to read with my coffee?  How am I supposed to take
>> a
>> dump without the sports page?  Imagine me sitting there on the throne with
>> my laptop.  No, don't.  Sorry for that visual.  These are life-long habits
>> and I bummed.
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
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